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Watchdog audit finds billions in wasted dollars on Obamacare fiasco ... Totally incompetent government let anyone sign up with no proof of anything (NaturalNews) There is now yet another reason to be disgusted by the ongoing fiasco known as Obamacare: A new report from the Government Accountability Office has concluded that the federal government's failure to properly monitor the eligibility of enrollees may have cost taxpayers billions in fraudulent payments. No one minding the store When the GAO looked at how the CMS monitors fraud, it found that the CMS relies on a document processing contractor to report on instances of possible fraud, while not requiring the contractor to have any viable fraud detection capability.In other words, this is like hiring a blind policeman to catch speeding vehicles. "CMS has not performed a comprehensive fraud risk assessment—a recommended best practice—of the PPACA enrollment and eligibility process. Until such an assessment is done, CMS is unlikely to know whether existing control activities are suitably designed and implemented to reduce inherent fraud risk to an acceptable level." Not a big surprise As Alexander Hendrie of Americans for Tax Reform noted, this new information should not be surprising to anyone who has been paying attention. "Time and time again, watchdogs have sounded the alarm over Obamacare exchange verification and controls," he wrote.Hendrie listed several previous reports and audits published by various watchdog groups warning of these opportunities for fraud within the current system. These include reports by the Health and Human Services Inspector General, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and earlier reports by the GAO, as well as an audit by the Office of the Legislative Auditor of Minnesota (which estimated an error rate of nearly 50 percent). The fact that all these audits and reports have been warning of the same problems for some time now, while the government continues to drag its feet in resolving them, is infuriating – especially to those who have been skeptical of Obamacare since the beginning. As Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said: "When the government wastes money, it is wasting OUR money. It is cutting OUR pay. It is damaging OUR lives. And the Obama administration is treating us with contempt." That statement pretty much sums things up, in my estimation. It's time to either radically overhaul the Obamacare system or get rid of it altogether – and preferably the latter. Sources: ATR.org GAO.gov[PDF] Science.NaturalNews.com
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