9/25/26 Department of Justice:
A federal jury in Fort Worth convicted a Texas licensed professional counselor yesterday for his role in a $26 million health care fraud, kickbacks, and money laundering scheme.
Yeah, I know, it is only $26 million To paraphrase Sen. Dickson, "$26 million here, $26 million there, after a while it adds up to a $40 trillion national debt."
9/27/26 Houston Chronicle reports:
The DOJ said Curry laundered some of the $17 million he received from TRICARE, putting it toward hotel stays, "a lavish casino-themed party" and what it's calling "a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck."
I am skeptical that it was gold plated.
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist.
Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide crackdown on fraud, would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings.
Of course, this being NPR, they have to cast doubt by the usual suspects but even NPR admits:
The Government Accountability Office suggests fraud risks in the advance premium tax credit do exist - however it's unclear at what scale. The GAO conducted covert testing using fictitious ACA applicants enrolled in 2024 and 2025. A report released in December showed that the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for almost all of the GAO's 24 fake enrollees.
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