Bamcare scams boomed under Biden, putrid pols normalize violence and other commentary

Fraud beat: ’Bamcare Scams Boomed Under BidenMedicaid fraud has “dominated headlines,” but Obamacare has also long been “highly susceptible” to fraud, fume the Washington Examiner’s editors — and it “exploded” thanks to President Joe Biden’s added COVID subsidies.Team Trump has moved to curb the scamming, “but a new report from Paragon Health Institute shows” ’Bamcare fraud is “persistent and more should be done.” Driving the scams are brokers who enroll “real people” in 100%-subsidized plans, people who never know their names were used.

“Taxpayer dollars then go directly to health insurance companies,” with brokers getting “$20 to $30 per enrollee per month.” Though the Biden subsidies have “thankfully” expired, “automatic enrollment means millions of fraudulent accounts” still operate.Disorder watch: Putrid Pols Normalize Violence“Five people were hospitalized after a seriously mentally ill suspect” with a “criminal record” went on a “slashing spree at Penn Station” Sunday, “exactly one month” after another “mentally ill repeat offender” killed a man “hours after being released from a hospital psych evaluation,” notes City Journal’s Carolyn D.Gorman.

“Violence linked to untreated serious mental illness” has “become increasingly normalized in New York,” letting “city leaders escape accountability for their failure to address the situation.” Electeds routinely “normalize violence by downplaying concern,” calling transit violence “rare” when it’s at historic highs.“Reducing” violence by the mentally ill “is not impossible,” but “stern faces and shaking heads” won’t do a thing.Eye on Europe: This Populism Is Not FascismEurope’s “Brussels establishment and its media allies” insist that Europe is “haunted by the spectre of fascism,” never failing to “liken the rise of national-populism” to the Hitler era, fumes Joel Kotkin at Spiked, when “i...