The breadth and depth of the fraud in government programs is the key to winning every debate about cutting the programs that waste all your money. The Dems claimed Republicans wanted to gut Medicare when what they were targeting was fraud.
If they are better at messaging, we lose the debate, nothing gets cut, and they win more elections. Oh, and the fraud continues and grows because it’s their fraud and they like it that way.
The Democrats’ shutdown was about protecting fraud and abuse. Billions in premium payments are being laundered through Obamacare into the hands of Insurance companies, who reward everyone who allows it with campaign donations.
Another drop in that bucket comes from a report that identified $94 million in taxdollars handed over to Big Insurance to pay for the premiums of deceased people. If you were serious about protecting a program and keeping costs down, wouldn’t you want safeguards to prevent that? Why aren’t you clawing it back and looking for more waste and abuse?
Because that advances some other goal.
Instead, you complain about how it’s more expensive than ever, but never acknowledge that it’s your fault or that fixing the flaws could make it cheaper. Or, here’s a big step: it’s a failure, repeal it, and get out of the way.
You can’t abuse a program that doesn’t exist and we know that 94 million is a drop of water in this great big ocean of fraud called Government Programs.
