GAO: Federal PPACA exchanges are open to fake people | LifeHealthPro

GAO: Federal PPACA exchanges are open to fake people | LifeHealthPro

 Investigators at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) created 12 fake health insurance test applicants and, for now, at least, have gotten qualified health plan (QHP) coverage for 11 through the public exchanges run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). All of the fake insureds are getting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) advance premium tax credit subsidy, which is supposed to go to QHP holders with incomes from 100 percent to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Nine are getting the cost-sharing reduction subsidy, which is supposed to go to QHP holders with incomes from 100 percent to 250 percent of the federal poverty level, according to Seto Bagdoyan, a GAO acting director

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