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Dead People Get Health Coverage & RFK helps kids from becoming Science Experiments
1. ACA Marketplace Fraud GAO (miswritten as “GOA”) found “significant fraud vulnerabilities” where fictitious applicants with “fake or invalid Social Security numbers” were still approved for subsidies. It says “nearly all of the fake applicants were accepted.” Duplicate subsidy payments, repeated payments tied to the same SSN, and “tens of thousands” of subsidies connected to deceased individuals. Brokers switched plans and enrolled people without sufficient verification, driven by commissions. Quantifies “billions” in…
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