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Posted on 03/19/2026 4:09:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s push to revive expired enhanced Obamacare tax credits by contrasting their cost with Pentagon spending is colliding with fresh scrutiny of the Affordable Care Act, as policy experts warn the program is riddled with improper enrollments, fraud vulnerabilities and rising taxpayer costs.
"We need to reform the ACA, not throw more taxpayer money at it," Brian Blase, president of the health policy research group Paragon Health Institute, said. He added that "government subsidies don’t make the coverage more affordable. They make it more expensive overall because you have to consider the taxpayer amount."
Blase spoke to Fox News Digital this month after Schumer made a viral swipe at Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth for spending $93.4 billion in the final month of the last fiscal year, including millions of dollars in luxury foods, such as king crab, for the troops.
The New York Democrat seized on the Pentagon spending figure to make a political point that the same amount could cover extending enhanced ACA tax credits for three years, even though defense funds are not directly fungible with Obamacare subsidies.
"Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month – roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for THREE YEARS. But instead of lowering American’s healthcare costs, Hegseth used millions of taxpayer dollars on fruit baskets, Herman Miller recliners, ice cream machines, Alaskan King Crabs, and a Steinway & Sons grand piano," Schumer posted to X last week.
Blase argued that the ACA is fraught with improper and "phantom" enrollees on top of proven fraud for which the Department of Justice has secured convictions, and that more funding was not the answer. The ACA’s premium subsidies are financed by the federal government, and advance payments of those tax credits are made on eligible enrollees’...
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Guy is an embarrassment. He knows this spending is routine and can be easily proven to be…. Same products , same amounts more of less under HIS partys watch. His gotcha moment is an exercise in hypocrisy and willful ignorance. Yet….He will wonder why his party got slaughtered in Nov.
At least 50% of all federal money is fraud.
He probably lies to his wife when she asks him how his day went.
He probably lies to his wife when he asks him how his day went.
“including millions of dollars in luxury foods, such as king crab, for the troops.”
It’s better than putting illegals (”asylum seekers”) up at hotels in NYC. Per Grok: “Overall migrant-related spending (shelter, food, etc.) has run into the billions: e.g., $4.88 billion combined in FY 2023–2024.”
For health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
2. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings
3. Separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers.
4. Create interstate drug plans that don’t have to pay what the drugmaker wants for every drug. To qualify for exchange listing and federal subsidies, they would have to most (~80% or more) in all important types (large volume recombinant, small volume recombinant, breakthroughs under patent, etc.). Group and exchange plans to offer time-limited vouchers at plan set amounts for out-of-formulary drugs. Voucher plans would have variable premiums. Plans without minimums (or vouchers) could be vended directly to individuals and families.
5. These plans would be all the doctors (and AI) prescribe for formulary drugs with co-pays equal to manufacturing cost
6. reform medical education, breaking down medicine and dentistry into simpler chunks and start it in the first year of college
7. replace most primary care doctoring with AI
(Insurers would pay human doctors to confirm AI diagnosis, orders for expensive tests[MRI, genetic], prescribe radiation imaging[CT, PET, X-ray]/treatment, and voucher/government co-pay drugs. Other human doctor care would be private pay.)
Entitlements that typically run in the vicinity of $20,000/year for a family aren’t something the government can afford for an ever-increasing number of families.
Those special meals mark occasions like deployments or returns for troops who spend extended periods on MDR (Meals Ready-to-Eat). The left attempts to weaponize a very reasonable military tradition which fosters cameroderie & esprit de corps while ignoring corruption, fraud and self dealing by their own ranks.
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