Ron Johnson: ‘Obamacare is a massive consumer fraud’

By M.D. Kittle

MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has never been a fan of Obamacare.

On Thursday, the Oshkosh Republican described President Obama’s signature health care initiative as nothing less than criminal.

“Let me be very clear what this administration did. Massive consumer fraud, that’s what it was. Obamacare is a massive consumer fraud,” said Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The committee held a hearing on the state of state health insurance markets after several years of Obamacare, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as it officially has been dubbed.

CONSUMER FRAUD: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson at a Senate hearing Thursday said no business would get away with the kind of fraud Obamacare has perpetrated on the American people.

Representatives from state health insurance commissioner offices testified on what are projected to be escalating premiums and structural costs as fed up insurers exit the health care exchanges.

Wisconsin Deputy Commissioner of Insurance J.P. Wieske, told the committee that some very scary prospects await thousands of Badger State health insurance consumers.