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Tom Barrett: “We suspect many of the people that were signed up using…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Candidate Interview: Tom Barrett (R) Representative in Congress - 7th District

Published | Video Starts at 14:14

… than 120 times to sign up individuals for a health care plan that was allowing them to recoup a tremendous amount of federal money at no cost to the individual. We suspect many of the people that were signed up using duplicative Social Security numbers and all these other ways that it was done, maybe phantom enrollees, maybe, you know, fraudulent in nature. Certainly 120 times is an indication of a high level of fraud in that specific instance. And there were tens of thousands of other examples where the same Social Security number had been used more than once to enroll somebody into the program. (14:14–14:26)

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Asserts suspicion of fraudulent enrollments using duplicative Social Security numbers.

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