Obamacare subsidies granted without documentation to 90% of fake accounts set up by government watchdog

Affordable Care Act subsidies have been granted , without the required documentation, to 90% of fictitious applicants over the last two years, according to a damning government watchdog report released Wednesday.

The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) preliminary findings of ongoing and covert testing of Obamacare found “fraud risks” in the federal ACA marketplace, specifically related to the healthcare program’s advance premium tax credit – a subsidy Democrats shut down the government over last month in a failed effort to extend the tax credit for three more years.

“The federal Marketplace approved coverage for nearly all of GAO’s fictitious applicants in plan years 2024 and 2025, generally consistent with similar GAO testing in plan years 2014 through 2016,” according to th