Susan Jones writes in a July 5 CNSNews.com article:
In a Friday “document dump,” the Health and Human Services Department announced it will not require the new state health insurance exchanges to verify consumers’ incomes to see if they qualify for health insurance subsidies.
Nor will HHS require the state exchanges to verify whether consumers can get affordable insurance through their employers.
Instead, the federal government will rely on what consumers tell them — until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems in place, the Washington Post reported.
So, it’s not that HHS will never require verification of income, as Jones initially suggests — it’s delaying verification for a year.
Jones went on to quote at length from a Washington Post article about the change, but she failed to quote the Post’s reporting that there is still a penalty for anyone found lying, and that the federal government uses the honor system for many other things, such as not demanding proof of cash tips reported as taxable income.
It’s a rather dishonest way to run a “news” website, but Jones is just following CNS’ policy of misleading or outright lying about anything involving the Obama administration.