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Obamacare Under Fire for 'Flawed' Approach to Rooting Out Fraud

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The president's health care law is coming under fire once again, this time for its flaws in rooting out fraud.

A new report being released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office finds that the Obama administration has taken a "passive" approach to identifying potential fraud.
    
Investigators say the administration has struggled to resolve eligibility questions affecting millions of initial applications and hundreds of thousands of consumers who were actually approved for benefits. 

In a formal written response, the administration agreed with eight GAO recommendations but maintains it applies "best practices" to control fraud.

But Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said, "Perhaps the most unsettling is that while HHS agrees there are many vulnerabilities, the agency has no urgency or plan to fix these critical errors."

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