by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News
“While Obamacare fraud is being confirmed by GAO, CMS, CBO and other outside reports, patients are suffering,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said
The Government Accountability Office found fraud in Obamacare subsidies, including $94 million paid to insurers for deceased people, according to the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee.
The committee on Wednesday announced the GAO’s findings, which included 58,000 Social Security Numbers receiving advanced premium tax credits that matched Social Security death data. At least 7,000 of those were dead before coverage started.
GAO investigators created fictitious identities with fake or never-issued SSNs, all of which submitted applications that were approved in late 2024, and 18 out of 20 of those that are still receiving subsidized Affordable Care Act coverage this year. Coverage was approved even when no documents were requested or fake documents were submitted, including fake citizenship eligibility documents.
Monthly subsidies paid to health insurers on behalf of these fake identities exceeded $12,300.
In 2023, a single SSN was used on applications for more than 125 insurance policies totaling over 26,000 days of coverage, which is the equivalent of 71 years. Last year, 66,000 SSNs had more than a year’s worth of subsidized coverage.
GAO also found that…
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STUNNING!
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They found one Social Security number was being used to get subsidized healthcare for SEVENTY-ONE DIFFERENT PEOPLE and when they asked the people in charge about it they just said they didn’t feel like figuring out which person was the real one. https://t.co/sujExP7EZI pic.twitter.com/I717Fkramn
— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) December 3, 2025