With billions in taxpayer dollars at stake, the
Obama administration has taken a "passive" approach to identifying
potential fraud involving the president's health care law, nonpartisan
congressional investigators say in a report due out Wednesday.
While the Government Accountability Office stops
short of alleging widespread cheating in President Barack Obama's
signature program, investigators found that the administration has
struggled to resolve eligibility questions affecting millions of initial
applications and hundreds of thousands of consumers who were actually
approved for benefits.
The agency administering the health law — the
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services — "has assumed a passive
approach to identifying and preventing fraud," the GAO report said. In a
formal written response, the administration agreed with eight GAO
recommendations while maintaining that it applies "best practices" to
fraud control.
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Source: NBC News
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