Senior Democrats pushed back
Thursday against an undercover government probe of President Barack
Obama's health care law, saying it didn't uncover any real fraud.
Investigators
for the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office signed up 11 bogus
beneficiaries for 2014 coverage then got HealthCare.gov to continue
benefits this year for all but one.
Sen.
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said these were "fictitious cases" and the GAO
investigators themselves admit the findings can't be translated to the
10 million people getting subsidized coverage through the law's health
insurance markets. Wyden spoke at a Finance Committee hearing on the
investigation.
But GAO's
audits chief Seto Bagdoyan said the investigation exposed real concerns.
He said it was relatively easy for GAO's fictitious characters to get
and keep coverage, even to get reinstated after HealthCare.gov
terminated them. HealthCare.gov seems to put a higher priority on
getting people covered than on verifying they are legally entitled to
benefits, Bagdoyan said.
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