Fraud is the Legacy of Obamacare, but Affordability Can Be Its Future

Originally published by The Pottstown–Mercury.

Lorie and Randy Delaney enrolled in an Ohio exchange plan. When they received a $1,096 bill for Rand’s insulin prescription, the couple knew something was wrong. It turns out a broker in Texas, whom they had never met, changed their insurance plan without their consent.

This is the dark side of an over-regulated health insurance market, where patients endure ever-rising premiums with little choice and are, such as the Delaneys, victims of health insurance fraud and abuse.

This year, the federal government wasted an estimated $27 billion on applicants who were ineligible for subsidized health insurance. That’s bad enough.

Read more at The Pottstown–Mercury.