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Broker Fraud in the ACA marketplace

…call center perpetrating this fraud that explicitly instruct agents not to ask for consent and not to tell prospective clients that the agent will switch them into a new plan….

The REH vs the EMH

agent i will have consumption 2-2i if the coin comes up tails and 2i if it comes up heads. Since the agents, except for agent i = 0.5, are making…

The Rest of the Story

…what it said after officers shot 30-year-old Chicago teaching assistant Marimar Martinez in October when it claimed she had “ambushed” agents, ramming their vehicle before an agent shot her five…