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| HHS Inspector sez millions of data inconsistencies in ACA applications. |
| 2014-07-02 |
| [Washington Examiner] Applications for insurance coverage through President Obama's health care law submitted in the final three months of 2013 contained millions of inconsistencies in which information such as income and immigration status could not be independently verified by the federal government, according to a June report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. Indeed difficult to determine immigration and citizenship when national sovereignty has been abolished and the borders are open to all. The inconsistencies may have resulted in individuals receiving an improper amount of subsidies, or subsidies that they shouldn't have been eligible for in the first place — something that could require them to repay the money in future tax bills. Good luck with that. In other cases, inconsistencies led to bizarre outcomes. According to the report, "one marketplace cited situations in which infants and young children included on applications were erroneously identified as incarcerated." Perhaps "incarcerated" was simply an assumed future status. At issue is the information that individuals are asked to submit when they apply for coverage, such as income, citizenship status, Social Security number, or incarceration status. In theory, once data are submitted, they are supposed to be checked in a massive storage database known as the "hub," which gathers data from multiple federal agencies. Huba, huba, huba, it's another colossal gov't cock-up. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |