Posted on 11/21/2025 9:28:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Taxpayers are footing the bill for up to $30 billion in fraudulent payments, one expert told The Daily Wire.
Though the government shutdown has ended, the fight over Obamacare is still raging.
Democrats want to extend and renew the Affordable Care Act’s expanded COVID-era subsidies, which are set to expire on December 31. Doing so would cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. Republicans want to let the subsidies lapse, and find a way to reform America’s healthcare system.
Ryan Long, Senior Research Fellow at the Paragon Health Institute, told The Daily Wire that the expanded subsidies have created zero-dollar insurance plans that have sparked widespread fraud and abuse.
“There’s upwards of 6 million people who aren’t actually within that income category that are claiming credits as if they were in that income category,” he explained. “In certain states, there are three to four times as many people enrolled in 100 to 150% of poverty in these $0 plans than there are people actually in those income brackets.”
“So these COVID credits have just produced massive amounts of fraud,” he said. “The federal government’s paying, you know, upwards of $27 billion to $30 billion in fraudulent payments.”
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz echoed this concern last week. “Today, it’s over 11 million people who have Obamacare, never use their policies … which means they often don’t know that they have it,” he said. “Yet we’re stuck with the bill.”
Obamacare is also making health insurance more expensive. Obamacare plan premiums have climbed a whopping 169% since 2013. The increase is far steeper than that of employer-sponsored insurance, because when prices rise, the government is paying most of the cost, so insurers can keep raising them without people feeling the impact, Long explained.
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Barry Soetoro - D isaster
Don’t fix it, nix it.................
And that the democRATs lied. Again. As usual.
Get rid of the whole of 2, which put millions on the dole...and see what's left.
The ACA was wholely unneeded, and it destroyed the medical industry. The only people who benefited from it was the fat cats in the medical industry.
The medical system in this country worked far better before the government got involved. Now it’s a mess. Wait times, quality of care and expenses: it’s a mess.
Most of the cost is in the bureaucracy set up to process insurance.
Take the subsidies off this boondoggle and let America see what Nationalized HC looks like.
Get FedGov out of this medical welfare program. People used to save for medical emergencies and buy low cost insurance policies for catastrophic events.
Me and Mrs Alaska have been on a Medicare-Advantage Plan for over 20 years with UPMC {Western PA} as the provider and the quality of care and the cost has been outstanding.
I've had the same local doc since the late 90's and when I/we required a surgeon or specialist we were directed to real professionals that always performed at or above our expectations.
I don't know if it's good fortune {bono fortuno} or the fact that UPMC {The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center} is an outstanding group of medical professionals, but I am 100% satisfied with both coverage and cost.
I've been inundated with calls, tweets, twats and emails to try and get me to change, but NFW.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
DOUBLE D==
DELIBERATE DISASTER
There is no fix for the Obozo’s ACA, just totally eliminate it
YES
Happy your healthcare is still good quality. Heaven is indeed smiling upon you. Not all of us are so lucky.
Could Trump’s plan fix it? How can it get any worse?
One of the biggest healthcare issue with poor people is type 2 diabetes. Making a special streamlined process for handling this could save a ton of healthcare costs. The type 2 diabetes epidemic is the cause of most other health care problems. Dietary modification, constant glucose monitoring, exerise programs. All this would be an investment in lower health care costs. Find the biggest health care problem and fix it. That is common sense.
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