Obamacare: Open season for fraud

As if the Affordable Care Act's massive increase in government intervention in the U.S. health care system was not enough of a problem, it appears that the system practically invites waste, fraud and abuse, according to a series of government oversight reports.

In the latest report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, echoing a similar report it published in July, found that basic information used to determine enrollment and subsidy eligibility, such as Social Security number, citizenship status, household income and family size, was not verified by the federal Health Insurance Marketplace (based on data from New Jersey and North Dakota) or the two state exchanges examined, in California and Kentucky, which led to the approval of fictitious applications submitted by the GAO.