Test Shows It's Easy to Defraud Obamacare [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 7 December 2025 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

In a test, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) created 20 fake applications for Obamacare subsidies. Despite the absence of documentation to verify that the Social Security numbers (SSN), citizenship, and reported incomes were valid, 18 of the applications were approved for a total of $10,000 per month subsidies. Other avenues for fraud included subsidies for dead people and multiple subsidies to identical SSNs--one of which was linked to 125 insurance policies and an aggregate coverage of 26,000 days in one year. These subsidies were paid to insurance companies on behalf of the fictitious and deceased individuals--none of whom ever filed a claim.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said "the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows the same Social Security number to run through the enrollment process multiple times. This is tailor-made to enable fraud. The GAO's troubling report is the smoking gun that shows how this broken system, shielded by Democrat policies, has led to the federal government shoveling tens of billions of tax dollars to insurance companies through identity fraud and caused health care costs to skyrocket for all Americans."

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky) stressed that Republicans "have sounded the alarm on the flawed structural integrity of Obamacare. Billions are being paid to insurers for fictitious customers. For all the Democrats caterwauling, no real patients are being served. Their 'health care is a human right' declaration is a cover for transferring billions of dollars from taxpayers to insurers. They are scamming voters with such propaganda."

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) admitted "the program isn't perfect, but what else could we have done?"

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) said "we should have nationalized the whole health care sector of the economy. This would've eliminated the whole insurance scam that is now a big scandal. There wouldn't have been any private sector to exploit the system. Patients would never have to worry about how much the care they need costs. The government would ensure that any needed care is free."

President Trump argued that "both the Obamacare system and the national health system are wrong for America. Obama promised that his plan would lower costs while allowing people to keep their doctors. Neither promise was kept. Most were forced to change doctors and costs have skyrocketed to the point that continuously enlarged subsidies are required to keep it afloat."

"They have national health care in Britain," Trump added. "The care is free to the patient, but it is rationed. Some patients have to wait months or years for some surgeries. Others may be flatly denied surgeries because government experts deem them unworthy of the cost of providing it. They are currently moving toward offering aid in dying to those they won't approve for aid in living. It won't be too long before aid in dying becomes a requirement for all those deemed unworthy of expensive health therapies. Rather than try to cram everyone into a single government health scheme we need more diversity in the options from which the health care consumer can choose."

Schumer called Trump's suggestion "ignorant. Every variety of LGBTQ persons is assigned to provide care for patients that are required to purchase Obamacare. Only government can compel the maximization of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that Obamacare provides."

Sanders said "I agree that only government can compel the maximization of DEI, but I would say that a totally government-run national health service could exert more effective control over the health care provided to the masses."

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: sanders; satire; schumer; trump

[John Semmens]

ping

[exnavy]

Where in the constitution is health care spelled out as a right?

[weezel]

I believe that everyone from chiropractors to brain surgeons and pharmacies, have all been sucking money out of obamacare since its beginning.

[PubliusMM]

From the article: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) said “we should have nationalized the whole health care sector of the economy. This would’ve eliminated the whole insurance scam that is now a big scandal. There wouldn’t have been any private sector to exploit the system. Patients would never have to worry about how much the care they need costs. The government would ensure that any needed care is free.”

Uh, Bernie... NOTHING is EVER FREE when the government is involved. Someone pays, and it’s always the taxpaying citizenry.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) said "we should have nationalized the whole health care sector of the economy. This would've eliminated the whole insurance scam that is now a big scandal. There wouldn't have been any private sector to exploit the system. Patients would never have to worry about how much the care they need costs. The government would ensure that any needed care is free."

You might as well laugh. Meanwhile congress makes sure the insurance companies keep their subsidies.

[Vaduz]

Agree

(GAO) created 20 fake applications for Obamacare subsidies.

aka profits from kickbacks

[smokingfrog]

Good ol’ Bernie is the guardian of government efficiency and the taxpayers!

[fella]

Just as it was designed to to buy votes with.

Was it De Tocqueville who said our nation would fail when the politicians figured out to bribe the citizens with the citizen’s own money?

[sima_yi]

It won't be too long before aid in dying becomes a requirement for all those deemed unworthy of expensive health therapies.

The Nazis in Germany had a term for this - Lebensunwertes Leben