The GAO recently conducted a test of the Healthcare.gov website and today they released the results. In 11 of 18 attempts, GAO employees were able to sign up for coverage on the site by intentionally using false identification.
It was Darrell Issa's wet dream come to life. Exercising their usual good judgment and sense of decorum, Congressional R's went gleefully nuts and screamed, "Fraud! Widespread fraud! Obamacare is a fraud and we gotcha now!"
Except . . . why would anyone want or need to use any sort of fake ID to get coverage when you could get the same coverage as yourself, without faking anything?
And if you do sign up with a fake ID, what you get is health insurance, not cash.
And even if you lie about your income to get a large premium subsidy, that money will go to the insurance company, not you.
So tell me again about this horrible, obvious "fraud."
As Gilda Radner's Emily Litella used to say, "Oh. Never mind."
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