[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12158]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FAKE OBAMACARE PAYMENTS

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, we continue to see issues with the 
President's healthcare law, including the most recent GAO investigation 
that has revealed that there are major fraud problems with the 
enrollment Web site.
  The nonpartisan watchdog discovered that www.healthcare.gov is unable 
to detect and prevent blatant fraud, as fake applicants were able to 
sign up for subsidies.
  This red flag is yet another example of how the healthcare law is not 
achieving the goals that it has claimed. Premiums continue to rise. 
Medical innovation has been stifled. And patients have less choice when 
it comes to their own healthcare decisions.
  Mr. Speaker, www.healthcare.gov was supposed to include a working 
verification system to ensure that nobody could cheat the system. 
However, it is clear from this investigation that there is very little 
fraud protection in place.
  Mr. Speaker, whether it is through incompetence or apathy, it is 
unacceptable that hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being wasted because 
administrators aren't implementing fraud protection measures. The 
status quo must change.

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