A recent article in
the Miami Herald reports that if Obamacare is repealed, the Miami area
will be one of the most highly impacted in the country due to the high number
of enrollees there. The article mentions five congressional districts
and, true to the Herald's reliably liberal slant, tries to make it look as
though the three Republicans who are opposed to Obamacare are hurting their
districts while the two Democrats are championing their federally insured
voters.
Four paragraphs into the article, my
antennae were twitching, sensing related, possibly pertinent data from an
earlier source. A quick Google search proved the antennae still reliable,
finding numerous articles describing Miami as the
epicenter of Medicare fraud. In fact, the problem is so extensive
that Miami has the distinction of being the site of America's first and largest
federal Medicare
Fraud Strike Force. That information just naturally elicits a
deepening suspicion of a correlation between such widespread corruption and the
high utilization of Obamacare.
Admittedly, the two programs are
substantially different, but they are also similar in the most important way:
they are federally mandated and heavily federally regulated. It requires
no special genius to conclude that criminal specialists in defrauding one
federal health program just might be the same criminals to devise the means to
criminally defraud another federal health program that in its infancy has far
less policing oversight than an older, more established, and better regulated
program like Medicare. With even investigators at the Government Accountability
Office admitting that Obamacare
is susceptible to fraud through fictitious enrollments, such high
utilization of Obamacare in the same areas where Medicare fraud is most
prevalent begins to whiff of something more than coincidence. One has to
wonder just how many of those high numbers of Miami area enrollees exist only
on paper.
That, folks, is another good reason for
getting the feds out of the health insurance business.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/is_obamacare_being_scammed_in_miami.html#ixzz4W2pbFfv9
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