Is welfare fraud the Democrats’ goal, given how much they’ve incentivized it — and how little they’ve done to stop it?
Last week the Government Accountability Office announced the results of a test it had launched back in 2024, when Joe Biden was president.Almost all the fictitious applicants were able to enroll — and all who didThis is a massive indictment of Obamacare — and of the Democrats who defend it at every turn.
How many of those people aren’t even real?Just how rampant is fraud in our federal benefits and welfare systems — fraud that the federal government clearly isn’t doing enough to identify, much less fight?When Barack Obama was president, the same federal watchdog found that nonexistent people routinely got coverage and subsidies. In 2016, Obama’s final year, his administration still hadn’t designed basic eligibility safeguards for the health-care system he called his greatest achievement. Biden made the fraud crisis worse when he worked with Democrats in Congress to temporarily expand Obamacare subsidies, creating an even greater incentive to steal from taxpayers. The IRS has found that 60% of those getting Biden’s bigger subsidies misreported their incomes to boost their benefits. What’s more, insurance brokers signed up huge numbers of people without their knowledge, getting a $1,000 commission for each family they enrolled. In November, a jury convicted one insurance broker over his company’s $233 million Obamacare-fraud scheme.At this point, it’s worth asking: Is Obamacare about health coverage, or is it just a cover for those stealing from taxpayers? For that matter, is fraud the Democrats’ goal, given how much they’ve incentivized it — and how little they’ve done to stop it?The first and most important thing they can do isat the end of this year, as the law establishing them provided. They’re facing intense pressure to vote on making them permanent, with Democrats screaming from the rafters that these extra handouts are essential for affordable health care. for platinum-level coverage. More to the point, the expanded subsidies are fraud-ridden through and through, as the GAO has proven.But letting this foolish handout expire is only Step 1.welfare program, from Obamacare to Medicaid to food stamps and beyond. The only acceptable policy is one that verifies a recipient’s eligibility before they get a cent of taxpayer funding. That means checking applicants’ names and identifying details against birth records, death records, employment records, prison records and every other government data source.documentation before a person is approved for taxpayer support.This is basic good-government procedure, and recent weeks have shown it’s badly needed at both the state and the federal level.Instead, Democrats have built a welfare system so careless that it fritters away billions of dollars a year on fraudsters.We shouldn’t fork over another dollar to anyone who doesn’t deserve it — or doesn’t exist. Jonathan Ingram is vice president of policy and research at the Foundation for Government Accountability
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