{"id":64508,"date":"2016-02-24T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64508"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:11:19","slug":"a-passive-approach-to-identifying-and-preventing-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64508","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;. . . a passive approach to identifying and preventing fraud.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Patently Pathethic, Asininly Puerile Abomination<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA &#8211; AKA \u201cObamaCare\u201d &#8211; is in the news again. And as usual, it\u2019s not in the news in any good way.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, it\u2019s a huge fraud magnet. We already knew that, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47825\">I\u2019ve written about that before<\/a><\/em>. In fact, I\u2019ve written about that as an ObamaCare issue <em><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/?p=38309\">more than once<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the government knows all that. And you know what? The \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">clown <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/krewe\">krewe<\/a><\/em> running DC today<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current Administration doesn\u2019t seem to give a sh!t that people are using ObamaCare to rob the American taxpayer blind.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO recently conducted a study of ObamaCare. The \u201cmoney quote\u201d? Here ya go:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCMS has assumed a passive approach to identifying and preventing fraud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those who might not recognize the acronym, CMS is the Federal entity that oversees Medicare, Medicaid . . . and the abomination known as ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has an article today that gives <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/02\/24\/white-house-passive-in-combating-possible-obamacare-fraud-watchdog-says.html\">a good overview of the situation<\/a><\/em>. The full GAO report <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/680\/675340.pdf\">can be found here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00a0 We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really<\/span> need to kill off this abomination of a law.\u00a0 Now.\u00a0 Then burn the remains, mix them with quicklime &#8211; and bury them in an abandoned mine shaft at least 1000&#8242; deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Patently Pathethic, Asininly Puerile Abomination \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;. . . a passive approach to identifying and preventing fraud.&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;. . . a passive approach to identifying and preventing fraud.&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}