Will John Boehner's passionate love for Obama prevent the House from voting Wednesday 9/11/13 to force ObamaCare law to substantiate eligibility for billions in benefits, rather than having applicants 'self attest' their eligibility?

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9/5/13, "Navigating ObamaCare Outrage," Wall St. Journal Editorial, "How dare anyone ask anything about the law's implementation."
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9/10/13, "Stopping ObamaCare Fraud," Wall St. Journal Editorial, "Will Democrats vote to verify who is eligible for subsidies?"

May 2, 2011

"Every politician claims to hate fraud in government, and the House of Representatives will have a chance to prove it Wednesday when it votes to close a gigantic hole for potential abuse in the Affordable Care Act.

The Health and Human Services Department announced in July that it won't verify individual eligibility for the tens of billions in insurance subsidies the law will dole out. Americans are supposed to receive those subsidies based on income and only if their employer doesn't provide federally approved health benefits. But until 2015 the rule will be: Come on in, the subsidy is fine.

HHS will let applicants "self attest" that they are legally eligible. No further questions asked. The new ObamaCare exchanges will also be taking applicants' word on their projected household income. It seems that what it calls "operational barriers" continue to prevent HHS from checking applications against IRS income data.

The Administration argues that the fear of later HHS audits will keep applicants honest, though the threat of such checks has hardly prevented other fraud. The Treasury Inspector General estimates that 21% to 25% of Earned Income Tax Credits go to people who aren't eligible. An equivalent rate of fraud in ObamaCare could mean $250 billion in bad payments in a decade. And does HHS really plan to claw back overpayments from individual exchange participants?

Democrats have paid lip service to the risk of fraud, and in July the Senate Appropriations Committee included in an HHS spending bill a "sense of the Senate" provision that the Obama Administration "should verify annual household or individual income prior to making available premium tax credits" under the law. That nonbinding resolution and 50 cents will get you 50 cents. Republican Senators Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and John Boozman (Arkansas) have introduced binding legislation, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won't let come up for a vote.

House Republicans by contrast will offer a vote that matters on Tennessee Representative Diane Black's bill to require the Administration to have a verification system in place before it hands out subsidies. Democrats have been unusually quiet in their opposition, perhaps because it is hard to justify voting in effect to give Americans subsidies they aren't legally entitled to.

Savings for taxpayers aside, the political merit of the House bill is that it puts a spotlight on a major ObamaCare failure and makes Democrats vote either to fix it or go along with that failure. It also highlights another case in which the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce black-letter law. Republicans are asking that a vast new entitlement be held to the most basic due diligence, or be prudently delayed until it can. If Democrats can't support that, voters should know."

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Image above: "President Barack Obama, right, is greeted by Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, as he arrives to speak during a dinner for a group of group of bipartisan Congressional leaders and ranking members and their spouses at the White House, Monday, May 2, 2011, in Washington." AP
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Comment: The left's goals are always:

1. To destabilize the US, create chaos, overwhelm all societal and government systems.
2. To destabilize the middle east and Africa and elevate Islamic savages.

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