On July 6, 2024, Paragon’s research “The Great Obamacare Enrollment Fraud,” by Brian Blase and Drew Gonshorowski, was recently referenced in the New York Post.
From the article:
Cover the full cost of something — especially it’s something pricey, like health insurance — and the number zooms off the charts.
That’s what’s happening in the case ObamaCare subsidies President Biden and fellow Democrats generously expanded, with those getting handouts actually exceeding the number entitled to them, a new report from the Paragon Health Institute found.
The improper claims are costing American taxpayers an estimated $15 billion to $26 billion a year, prompting House Republicans to demand a review by the Health and Human Services inspector general and the Government Accountability Office to determine “the breadth of improper enrollment and its underlying causes.”
Legislation passed by President Biden and fellow Democrats “resulted in tens of billions of additional taxpayer dollars being spent to prop up ObamaCare plans by increasing subsidies given to insurance companies far above those originally authorized by Congress,” their letters to HHS and GOA officials stated.
That includes expanded eligibility for totally free ObamaCare policies to people making up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level — an incentive, Paragon researchers found, that’s spurred as many as 5 million people to “improperly” claim income below that threshold.
The full article can be found in the New York Post.
