The government watchdog also uncovered 66,000 Social Security numbers with more than a year’s worth of subsidized coverage in 2024, including one number used for the equivalent of 71 years of coverage — in a single plan year.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the ACA marketplace, does not block new applications using the same Social Security number, according to the report.
Additionally, 58,000 SSNs receiving benefits in 2023 matched Social Security death data, resulting in $94 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies being sent to health insurers on behalf of deceased individuals.
1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.
1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of healing the Middle East.
Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball said on “I’ve Had It” on Tuesday that she was baffled by brown-skinned minorities working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to clamp down on illegal immigration.
But it turns out that when a much-touted report was slain by error, then the metaphorical crickets...are all that can be heard... “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change” wasn’t merely “a fatally flawed paper,” says Roger Pielke Jr., environmental studies professor, “but a flawed paper that had taken on outsized influence in climate advocacy and policy.”
The authors predicted that climate change would cost $38 trillion a year by 2049, estimating “that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years, regardless of how rapidly humanity now cuts emissions,” says Carbon Brief...
The authors further claimed to see clearly enough into the future to project “the global gross domestic product would be lowered by 62% by 2100.”...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a comprehensive reset of federal fuel economy standards, aiming to ease regulations on the auto industry to boost American manufacturing and reduce costs for consumers.
One vehicle in particular will benefit from such regulation reduction: the Asian sensation Kei truck...
Trump encountered the tiny tonka during his October Asia trip...
Multiple models would be highly marketable and profitable in the U.S. including the $14,000 Toyota Hilus, the $2,000 Micro-EVs or the $4,000 Suzuki Alto...
They were promised lucrative and stable careers if they "learned to code" and earned a degree in software engineering.
Instead, many Americans in the tech industry have been left disillusioned as they face mass layoffs and chronic unemployment — a crisis they say stems from an addiction to cheap foreign labor pipelines that are made accessible through programs like H-1B, and are touted by companies as a way to hire the "best and brightest."
State data estimates Illinois is home to more than 500,000 migrants without lawful status, with 27,000 already enrolled in a public college or university.
Harmeet Dhillon is probably going to be all over this.
📣 Heads up: starting Jan 1, 2026, Illinois will open state-funded grants, scholarships, stipends, and other student aid to undocumented students.
Translation: your “new neighbors” will soon have access to the perks you thought were yours… because why wouldn’t they, right?pic.twitter.com/zyIzzNY7va
It goes on to highlight the core tenets of what the Trump administration will work to achieve, including the "survival and safety" of U.S. citizens, control over our borders and freedom from "destructive propaganda and influence operations," a strong military, economy, energy grid, and a "robust industrial base."
This is despite the debunking of the magical thinking of the ‘new’ energy economy by those who understand and respect the laws of physics and economics.
Another trope that has gained traction among green ideologues is the ‘primary energy fallacy’...
But scratch beneath the surface, and this ‘fallacy’ reveals itself as little more than a sleight of hand, a convenient narrative to prop up costly and unreliable energy sources at the expense of economic rationality.
Drawing on the incisive analyses of advocates of energy literacy such as Lars Schernikau and Ronald Stein, it’s clear that the real distortion lies in ignoring the full system-level costs and inefficiencies of wind and solar as well as the multiple uses of oil and gas as feedstock for myriad products...
Selected materials required by electricity generation technology. Source: Schernikau based on Department of Energy, USA. See also here...
"I...noticed that a member of European Parliament called Helmut Brandstetter tweeted, quote, "There's no censorship in Europe.
Everyone has to follow our rules."...
So, as I tweeted a few moments ago, a German woman notoriously received a harsher jail sentence than a convicted rapist after the woman called the rapist, quote, "a disgraceful pig."
This was after he participated along with several other disgraceful pigs in the gang r*pe of a 15-year-old girl in a public park.
Similarly, a British woman was dragged out of her bath by 11 police officers after she referred in a private text message to a man who allegedly violently assaulted her as, quote, "a f*ggot."...
If you want to know how conservatives should think about media ownership policy, a good starting point is to head opposite the people who think that President Trump and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr are “autocratic,” “fascist,” and engaged in “mob-style government.” Those are charges levied in recent comments from Free Press, a left-wing nonprofit opposing the proposed reforms to the FCC’s rules capping ownership of broadcast stations.