Government Audits Reveal Vast ObamaCare Failures

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 07/1/2014 | IBD Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Accountability: Two new audits reveal failures in ObamaCare on a scale even we didn't think possible, with unresolved discrepancies, rules violations and technology problems that expose taxpayers to massive overpayments.

In the first of a series of ObamaCare audits, the Health and Human Services inspector general found 2.9 million "inconsistencies" in applications submitted to the federal HealthCare.gov exchange in the first five months of open enrollment.

In other words, the Social Security numbers, income, family size, citizenship or other information applicants provided didn't match existing government data. Some 1.3 million of the problems involved citizenship, and an additional million involved income, the IG said.

Worse, the IG found HHS was unable to resolve 2.6 million of these discrepancies because the ObamaCare "eligibility system was not fully operational."

[Joe Boucher]

“Government Audits Reveal Vast ObamaCare Failures

Government Audits Reveal Vast Obama Failures

more accurate.

[airborne]

We just need to hire several thousand more union employees to work the system, and I’m sure everything will be right as rain!

[wayoverontheright]

Great editorial.

Here we have further evidence of what most of us predicted would come to pass. It’s tempting to blame Obama and Obama only for the healthcare fiasco, but perhaps liberalism itself is endangered here, and it is a much bigger prize.

It seems to be sinking in now that those who are suffering the most as a result of the ACA are Democratic party constituent voting blocs. The young, by design, the poor in general and blacks in particular. The subsidies are a mirage because of the high deductibles.

Obamacare, even with all the other scandals emerging, still affords us the most important political ammunition, with which to actually banish liberalism from the public sphere-for a time, of course, because it will never go away.

I could use a few decades of life in America with liberalism out of power, and that’s where Obamacare is taking them, IMHO.

[Recompennation]

The doctor’s office asked.
. you don’t have obama care do you? When answered no they said good that they were not taking new patients that have it.

[4Liberty]

Underfunded!
Another 5% of GDP allocated to the public sector should do it.

[lostboy61]

It was meant to fail that was the whole plan from the start. The audits also said it would bankrupt the country in short order. Now do you see the PLAN.

[Scotswife]

Ahhhhh .... So they never did fix that glitchy website.
Shocking.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Democrat Party's Operation Save Our Arses by Throwing Barry Under the Bus getting into full swing.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It's possible that a few million fictitious applications were submitted by individuals and groups being paid bounties for enrollee sing-ups.

[billyboy15]

LOL, gee ya think?

[okie01]

Obamacare, even with all the other scandals emerging, still affords us the most important political ammunition, with which to actually banish liberalism from the public sphere-for a time, of course, because it will never go away.

Shame the Republican party understands nothing of what you just wrote.

[GOPJ]

There’s reasons Americans see Obama as the worst President since World War II - and this is one of ‘em....