The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher take from Republican lawmakers who say key parts of the ACA cost taxpayers too much and provide incentive for fraud.
Several House Republican leaders have called on two agencies to investigate, while Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) fired off more than half a dozen questions in a recent letter to CMS.
At issue are the ACA’s enhanced subsidies, put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of economic recovery legislation. Grassley said in a recent news release that the subsidies “left Obamacare, a program already riddled with problems, wide open to new waste, fraud, and abuse.”
While potential fraud in government programs has always been a rallying cry for conservatives, the recent criticisms are a renewed line of attack on the ACA because repealing it is unlikely, given that more than 21 million people enrolled in marketplace plans […]
Notice that there there are never discussions of deficit and fraud when it comes to the defense budget? We don’t question expenditures for bullets, missles, planes, etc….But let there be costs for healthcare and welfare and the deficit hawks come out of the woodwork – Democrates and Republicans both. You will know there is progress happening when there are Congressional investigations of Defense Contracting fraud, followed by convictions and jail time for those responsible. Don’t hold your breath however, the system is throughly corrupt. Think and act outside the box.
After Harris wins the presidency, unlike Biden, I would want her to increase SCOTUS to 13 justices and this way they can overturn the nutty rulings they have made in the last year or so. They are the worst rulings EVER by SCOTUS because they do not deal with constitutionality of laws but with their own religious or political philosophies!!! Totally illegal, immoral, and actually unconstitutional!