’Bamcare scams boomed under Biden, putrid pols normalize violence and other commentary

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’Bamcare scams boomed under Biden, putrid pols normalize violence and other commentary

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Fraud beat: ’Bamcare Scams Boomed Under Biden

Medicaid fraud has “dominated headlines,” but Obamacare has also long been “highly susceptible” to fraud, fume the Washington Examiner’s editors — and it “exploded” thanks to President Joe Biden’s added COVID subsidies. Team Trump has moved to curb the scamming, “but a new report from Paragon Health Institute shows” ’Bamcare fraud is “persistent and more should be done.” Driving the scams are brokers who enroll “real people” in 100%-subsidized plans, people who never know their names were used. “Taxpayer dollars then go directly to health insurance companies,” with brokers getting “$20 to $30 per enrollee per month.” Though the Biden subsidies have “thankfully” expired, “automatic enrollment means millions of fraudulent accounts” still operate.

Disorder watch: Putrid Pols Normalize Violence

“Five people were hospitalized after a seriously mentally ill suspect” with a “criminal record” went on a “slashing spree at Penn Station” Sunday, “exactly one month” after another “mentally ill repeat offender” killed a man “hours after being released from a hospital psych evaluation,” notes City Journal’s Carolyn D. Gorman. “Violence linked to untreated serious mental illness” has “become increasingly normalized in New York,” letting “city leaders escape accountability for their failure to address the........

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