Allegations have emerged that millions of Americans may be wrongly getting federal health insurance subsidies. House Republican leaders are asking government watchdogs to investigate health insurance sign-ups through the Affordable Care Act, citing reports that allege insurance brokers are fraudulently enrolling customers into some ACA health plans and that millions of Americans may be wrongly benefiting from federal insurance subsidies.“The scale of the problem suggests malicious intent,” Reps.
Republicans have countered that the program’s purpose has been distorted, and that Democrats have been too generous in providing federal subsidies for private health insurance. “It’s stunning how little has been done to date looking at these issues,” Brian Blase, Paragon’s president and a former Trump White House health policy official, said in an interview.Edwin Park, a research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, said he supported federal investigations into broker behavior and other sources of potential enrollment fraud.