Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Obamacare is a Job Creator....for Crooks

To the list of problems plaguing President Obama’s health care law, add one more — fraud. 
With millions of Americans frustrated and bewildered by the trouble-prone federal website for health insurance, con men and unscrupulous marketers are seizing their chance. State and federal authorities report a rising number of consumer complaints, ranging from deceptive sales practices to identity theft, linked to the Affordable Care Act. 
Madeleine Mirzayans was fooled when a man posing as a government official knocked on her door.
Barbara Miller and Maevis Ethan were pitched by telemarketers who claimed to work for Medicaid. And Buford Price was almost ensnared by another new trap: websites that look official but are bait set by fly-by-night insurance operators. 
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“With this changing health insurance landscape, there is a new opportunity for people to take advantage of our residents, and we’ve seen it starting already,” said Kate Abernathy, a spokeswoman at the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.
While it is difficult to quantify the problem, interviews with authorities in states including California, Florida, Illinois, and New York suggest that fraud is a growing worry. 
Websites are particularly difficult to police. 
“We are remaining vigilant, since we anticipated that the law was so complex that scam artists would take advantage of it,” said Tom Miller, the attorney general of Iowa. In New York and Illinois, attorneys general are investigating at least two firms that they suspect of fraud, according to people briefed on the matter. 
Since October, attorney general offices in 36 states have been holding conference calls about the emerging dangers every two weeks.
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is really turning into a seismic disaster every which way from Sunday. I'm starting to believe that it is actually possible this thing is repealed-led by democrats.

-Martha

BOSMAN said...

"With millions of Americans frustrated and bewildered by the trouble-prone federal website for health insurance, con men and unscrupulous marketers are seizing their chance. State and federal authorities report a rising number of consumer complaints, ranging from deceptive sales practices to identity theft, linked to the Affordable Care Act. "

Well, You can't claim Obama isn't a job creator.

Scammers, Con men, Bogus websites, Identity thieves..hey..they have to make a living...right?

You know they're saying that Obamacare has only enrolled 50,000 so far.

Perhaps there's THOUSANDS MORE that enrolled through one of the entrepreneurial methods above WHO THINK THEY'RE ENROLLED, who aren't being counted?

Anonymous said...

hee hee. Except it's not funny.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

Screw people without insurance. Let them die.

Anonymous said...

Whoever you are, anon at 2:44, you and people like you aren't welcome on this site. We don't like Obamacare for too many reasons to count, but most of us are pro-life on this site, if not all, and last I heard that includes people without health insurance, too. In fact, we wasn't people to love and thrive including the unborn babies democrats are so anxious to have aborted by Obamacare.

AZ

Anonymous said...

Want people, not wasn't.

Anonymous said...

Amen, AZ.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

getting everyone insured in america is the morally right thing to do

Anonymous said...

The best way to do that is NOT by destroying the insurance of those who already have it. Besides, personal freedom needs to be a factor I in everything we do in America. Freedom is what makes this the greatest country on earth, our did until the govt elitists took control.

AZ