Whole lotta gaming going on; existential threat to #ACA from sick people running up bills & ditching out, not paying
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-14/gaming-of-obamacare-poses-a-fatal-threat?mc_cid=88366c670b&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Ways to Defraud Medicaid #142 – use day care center to sign up ineligibles for long-term care ($47M).
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2016/01/jewish-healthcare-charity-settles-medicaid-fraud-suit-for-46-million-567.html
VT Guv proposes more provider tax shell games to close $55 million Medicaid expansion shortfall
http://watchdog.org/254681/physicians-dentists-to-pay-medicaid-costs/
Slavitt admits HHS “blew it”, kept writing check to co-ops despite knowing they were hemorrhaging money
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/21/top-obamacare-official-pledges-action-failing-co-o/
$1B – price tag for O-admin proceeding with #ACA even though it knew it could not verify tax credit eligibility
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/01/13/obamacare-officials-may-have-cost-taxpayers-1-billion
HHS knew it was opening Healthcare.gov with bugs and security issues (saw train wreck coming) http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-hhs-documents-reveal-security-concerns-healthcare-gov-had-no-authorization-to-operate/
#LIARS in WVa: Medicaid ‘not welfare’, ‘bridge to middle class’, ‘insurers rarely offer long term care plans’
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/advocates-worry-about-funding-for-medicaid-expansion/article_904376f6-4a69-585f-b41b-c5ad547f7b31.html
House GOP issues subpoena related to unappropriated cost sharing subsidies
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/266534-house-gop-issues-subpoena-for-obamacare-docs
Illinois co-op drops academic hospital from network AFTER people sign up. #ObamacareIsBetter
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160119/NEWS03/160119828/struggling-illinois-obamacare-health-land-of-lincoln-health-plan-to
UK single-payer system gives private coverage to officials hired to reduce ‘health inequalities’ in system.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/16/taxpayer-funds-private-health-care-for-nhs-staff/
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