Obama’s Biggest Promise Turned into His Biggest Lie: Dan Bongino [WATCH]

Dan Bongino took aim at the Affordable Care Act after the federal government identified hundreds of thousands of unauthorized enrollments in the health insurance marketplace, arguing that the latest fraud findings add to years of broken promises surrounding Obamacare.

Bongino opened by revisiting the original claims made about the Affordable Care Act, including promises that healthcare would become more affordable and that Americans would be able to keep their existing insurance plans.

“Remember when we heard about the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, how it was going to be more affordable, no one’s plan was going to be canceled, and none of that turned out to be true?” Bongino said.

He then mocked liberals who continue to make healthcare costs a central political issue while defending a healthcare system built around the law.

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“I never mock or downplay the concerns of our voters, but mocking liberals is easy,” Bongino said.

“Liberals complaining about health care, this is my number one issue, I’m Johnny Greenhair going into the election, healthcare is my number one issue, the cost of healthcare.”

Bongino argued that Democrats cannot separate themselves from the Affordable Care Act when criticizing current healthcare costs because the law remains central to the federal healthcare system.

“You understand Obamacare is the law, right?” Bongino said.

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“It was actually called the Affordable Care Act?”

He continued by pointing directly to the name of the legislation.

“Do you think It’s not called the TCA, the Trump Care Act, or the McCain Care Act, or the Romney Care Act, it’s the Affordable Care Act, named Oba- Your bill sucks.”

Bongino then turned to the latest fraud findings, saying the Trump administration’s broader effort to identify improper government payments had uncovered hundreds of thousands of people who were improperly enrolled in Obamacare plans.

“And now we find out yesterday, thanks to the government, the Trump government’s work on fraud, that there’s something like 760,000 people fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare, costing us billions of dollars a year,” Bongino said.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that approximately 315,000 unauthorized marketplace enrollments covering more than 760,000 people had been canceled following a review by CMS and insurance companies.

The agency said the cancellations were expected to result in approximately $2.2 billion in returned taxpayer-funded subsidies.

Bongino argued that the discovery stands in sharp contrast to the way Obamacare was originally presented to the public.

“I thought this was painted as some this was the Mount Olympus of healthcare legislative proposals, the Affordable Care, it’s going to be cheaper, nobody’s plan is going to be canceled, everybody’s going to get high quality healthcare, and none of that’s happening,” Bongino said.

He accused supporters of the law of repeatedly misleading Americans about its performance.

“They lie to you all the time,” Bongino said.

The fraud findings also included cases in which people were enrolled without realizing it, according to Bongino.

“Some of the people on Obamacare fraudulently didn’t even know they were on Obamacare,” he said.

Federal officials have described unauthorized marketplace enrollment as a problem involving consumers who were enrolled or switched into plans without their permission, sometimes through agents or brokers.

The Trump administration has made healthcare fraud enforcement part of a broader push to identify improper federal spending.

For Bongino, however, the latest numbers are about more than individual fraud cases.

He argued they represent another failure associated with a law that was sold to the public on promises of affordability, stability and better healthcare access.

His criticism centered on the contrast between those original promises and what he sees as the reality Americans have experienced since the law took effect.

“I thought this was painted as some this was the Mount Olympus of healthcare legislative proposals,” Bongino said.

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