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Guaranteed Human.

Fraud has become a major headline, especially when it deals with the Affordable Care Act,

which we now know is anything but affordable.

And now we're finding out more about your tax dollars going to insurance programs, companies.

And in fact, the beneficiaries don't even know it's even giving them coverage.

I want to take you backwards to where we learned a lot of this from the GA fraud investigation.

The government accountability office used by Republicans of the centerpiece of their new expose,

has found significant fraud vulnerabilities in how the ACA, the Affordable Care Act,

marketplace processes enrollment and taxpayer subsidies.

Some of the key findings are truly shocking.

The GOA created fictitious applicants with fake or invalid social security numbers,

and the ACA marketplace still approved them for subsidies and policies.

In fact, nearly all of the fake applicants were accepted.

The report found instances of duplicate and repeated subsidy payments tied to the same

Social Security numbers, including one Social Security number appearing on many separate

policies, and that suggested poor verification systems.

In other words, the insurance companies know that

they're going to get paid for people that don't deserve the coverage. But who cares if you're

getting paid? Tens of thousands of subsidy payments also were connected to deceased individuals as well.

That's right. Your tax dollars going to dead people.

And what better client for these big insurance companies than someone that's literally dead?

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