{"id":18656,"date":"2013-08-20T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:54:50","slug":"the-coming-obamacare-navigator-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18656\/the-coming-obamacare-navigator-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming ObamaCare Navigator Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to ObamaCare\u2019s launch on October 1st we\u2019ve seen plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/waste-293422-government-insurance.html \" target=\"_blank\">waste<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2013\/08\/13\/yet-another-white-house-obamacare-delay-out-of-pocket-caps-waived-until-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/19\/obamacare-launch-opening-scammers\/ \" target=\"_blank\">fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Massachusetts, scammers have deceptively marketed fake health insurance policies and created fake web sites that claimed to sell ObamaCare, targeting seniors to gain their personal information,\u201d reports Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Kansas and Alabama, <strong>con artists posing as government employees talked people into giving up their account numbers in order to sign up for fake health care plans<\/strong>.\u201d (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n<p>At first blush, it may seem crazy that people would hand over such sensitive information as their Social Security number, medical records, pay stubs and the like to complete strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that\u2019s exactly how ObamaCare envisions millions of Americans getting health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange \u2013 by sharing some of their most sensitive financial and health information with an online-certified \u2018navigator.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we should believe the best about people and hope they don\u2019t succumb to the temptation to sell private information.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s first-order foolishness to expect millions of sensitive transactions involving most of a person\u2019s critical data to be fraud-free.<\/p>\n<p>Fraud, like most crimes, is a crime of opportunity. Shame on the Obama administration for creating so many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to ObamaCare\u2019s launch on October 1st we\u2019ve seen plenty of waste and abuse. Now comes the fraud. \u201cIn Massachusetts, scammers have deceptively marketed fake health insurance policies and created fake web sites that claimed to sell ObamaCare, targeting seniors to gain their personal information,\u201d reports Fox News. There\u2019s more. \u201cIn Kansas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,3242,3308,1829,4227,35,1447],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-navigator","tag-obamacare","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18659,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/18659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}