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JD Vance is not ripping away anyone’s health insurance coverage wapo.st/4hJLWsp

I’ve noticed that Post-liberal policy proposals manifest themselves in first order thinking. Their policy ideas always can be preceded with “wouldn’t it be nice if.” “Wouldn’t it be nice if SAHMs got the same benefits as day care?” “Wouldn’t it be nice if we made everything we need right here in America?” “Wouldn’t it be nice if Americans did all the jobs H1B workers do?” They then advance a direct and simple policy to implement that “wouldn’t it be nice if” idea. Actual policy experts in those areas (tax, welfare, trade, immigration, labor, etc) then bring up the unintended consequences of their half-baked policy idea, pointing out second and third order impacts that have to be wrestled with in order to make the policy stand up to scrutiny. Instead of engaging in this marketplace of ideas, something the rest of us take for granted as part of the public policy process, they more often than not inveigh ad hominem invectives at the objector. This is a profound sign of weakness. They cannot defend their ideas from honest objections and scrutiny, because they don’t know enough policy to do so. So they attack people. This means their ideas are never actually developed via the forge of peer reviewed testing and poking and prodding. They insist that you agree with them, or else. That’s why their ideas never work and never hold up. It’s values identification disguised as policy making.

"You might think ensuring that Obamacare enrollees are real people would be a bipartisan cause, but these days there can be no reduction in the rolls — no matter how legitimate — without demagoguery." @PostOpinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

760,000 ObamaCare enrollees had no Social Security or immigration numbers, paid no premiums and filed no medical claims. Yet taxpayers were footing their bills. ObamaCare has a fraud problem, not a coverage problem. Glad to see the Trump administration cleaning up the mess. wsj.com/opinion/obamacare-fr…

American incomes reached a record high as poverty fell. At the same time, the Working Families Tax Cuts are letting workers, seniors and families keep more of what they earn. Higher incomes. Lower poverty. More tax relief. #CFE #TaxCuts #Economy

The only way to solve debt problems around the world, and in the US, is to increase economic growth rates. The #1 way to boost growth rates is to shrink the size of the federal government. It’s a twofer. The last time this happened was Reagan/Clinton. Let’s get it done again.

I can only conclude from this and from the objections to healthcare and welfare oversight that the liberals are all pro-fraud.

Paragon PIC: For over a decade, U.S. health spending tracked other wealthy nations almost exactly. Then the ACA took effect in 2014 and the U.S. pulled away — by 2025, real per-capita spending had roughly doubled since 2000, far outpacing the OECD. 📊 ow.ly/zwfj30sZ6mS

The Working Families @TaxCuts in action: "Republicans said it was a big deal when they passed a new federal tax credit for school choice. How big? Assuming 10% participation by eligible donors, scholarship funds could hit $18.8 billion, a new report says, or roughly 24% of federal K-12 spending. It’s ‘more than the federal tax benefits each year for charitable giving to every school, college, and university combined.'" More from @WSJOpinion ⬇️ wsj.com/opinion/federal-scho…

Fraudsters exploited Obamacare at the expense of vulnerable Americans and taxpayers. EXAMPLE: Cory Lloyd targeted homeless people and those with mental health and substance abuse disorders in a $233 MILLION Obamacare fraud scheme. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Yesterday, @VP Vance's Fraud Task Force and @DrOzCMS took action to prevent fraudsters like this from robbing taxpayers and threatening the healthcare of Americans who need it most.

Nearly three-quarters of private community hospitals hold tax-exempt status — shifting $13.2 billion in federal taxes onto everyone else in 2022, on top of $41.1 billion in state and local breaks. A new Paragon Prognosis asks what taxpayers get for it. ow.ly/H4TM30sZ6mP

Moving trucks are delivering a message. Florida and Texas gained the most movers. New York and California lost the most. Red mountain and Southern states keep growing fastest. Americans are voting with their feet!

As federal government involvement in health care has grown, spending on health care has grown. Far faster than inflation. Faster even than the economy. The solution is less federal government involvement in health care, not more.

Sending a $5,000 payment to the 250 million adults who are eligible to vote would cost $1.25 trillion. hubs.ly/Q04y3rX30

Brandon Arnold, executive vice president of NTU, told The Advocates that the bill “would be the most consequential IRS reform package since the mid-’90s.” More on why the TAS Act is must-pass legislation from @KerryPicket 👇 washingtontimes.com/news/202…

Thanks to @cspanwj for having me on. I explain here that @CMSGov was careful to remove enrollees who were almost certainly phantoms. And if any legitimate enrollees are removed, they are protected. They just need to provide a valid Social Security # and will be re-enrolled.

Paragon Health Institute & @brian_blase statement on @VP and @DrOzCMS actions to remove 750,000 fraudulent enrollments from the ACA: Trump Administration Is Right to Remove Phantom Obamacare Enrollees

Trump’s proposed $5,000 “dividend” could cost roughly $1.2 trillion at a time when Washington is already running massive deficits. Voters are skeptical, too. Congress should focus on controlling federal spending, not creating another costly payment program. #CFE #FederalSpending #NationalDebt

🔥BREAKING: I just learned how commonsense @CMSGov actions were today to remove phantom enrollees in federal exchange states. Here is what they did. This should not be controversial in any way, unless you support fraud, sending billions of dollars to insurers on behalf of phantoms, and large taxpayer-financed commissions for unscrupulous brokers who made things up on applications, including creating fake applicants. First, enrollees had to meet 4 criteria: 1) have an application submitted by an agent or broker that lacks a Social Security number or immigration number; 2) have no record of actual contact with the insurer; 3) pay $0 in premiums themselves (meaning taxpayers paid 100% of the premium); and 4) have NO medical claims. Of note, the combination of these factors is a red flag for a potential phantom enrollee. Second, assuming those 4 criteria were met, the insurer sent the enrollee two forms of notice and gave them 30 days to respond. Third, if there was no response, CMS determined the enrollment to be unauthorized, and it was canceled. (Of note, insurers have large incentives to get in touch with the enrollee to keep that subsidy payment flowing.) IMPORTANT DETAIL THAT SAFEGUARDS LEGITIMATE ENROLLEES: CMS has a safeguard in place. If a legitimate enrollee was affected, they can contact the call center, provide a verified Social Security number, and be reinstated.