New Jersey’s prosecutor for insurance fraud defines the crime this way:
“With the possible exception of murder and drug abuse, no serious crime attracts as wide a variety of perpetrators as insurance fraud. People who would never think of robbing a bank, stealing a car or burglarizing a home can find the temptations of ‘easy money’ from insurance fraud hard to resist.”
Substitute “false political promises” for “easy money,” and you have a good idea of the flim-flam Garden Staters are finding with ObamaCare.
That’s the gist of a Star Ledger story that begins as follows: “Hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans opened the mail last week to find their health-insurance plan would no longer exist in 2014 because it does not cover all the essential benefits required by the Affordable Care Act.”
The story goes on to say the changes will hit more than 800,000 New Jerseyans.
Some defenders say it’s still an improvement, because these people will get more coverage. But that wasn’t the promise.
In 2009, President Obama put it this way:
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan.”
Just as New Jersey’s web site for insurance fraud says, we’re sure President Obama would never think of robbing a bank or stealing a car.
Too bad he, too, found the temptations of insurance fraud just too hard to resist.