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Mike Crapo: “The GAO found tens of billions of dollars of subsidies in…”

Featuring: Mike Crapo, Republican | U.S. Senate Idaho

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Crapo: Americans Should Control Their Own Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 05:02

This year, 6.4 million Americans were improperly enrolled in enhanced Obamacare subsidies at a cost of $27 billion. The true cost of fraud was likely even higher because The GAO found tens of billions of dollars of subsidies in 2023 had not been reconciled to the enrollees' incomes. meaning they could have misrepresented their incomes to qualify for bigger subsidies. This is the program our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are prepared to extend without changes, without even changing the policies that are generating fraudulent abuse. (05:02–05:23)

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Asserts that tens of billions in subsidies were not reconciled to incomes in 2023.

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