Con artists went door-to-door in California selling senior citizens fake health care policies called “ObamaCare,” threatening that they’d have to go to jail unless they paid up. The unfortunate marks fell victim to a con, unaware that the actual jail-threatening ObamaCare peddlers will be wearing official Star Wars stormtrooper uniforms and won’t be hitting the streets until well after the midterm elections.

California’s County of San Bernardino Department of Aging and Adult Services warns of the scam in a Victorville Daily Press story, which notes that the health care reform legislation won’t go into effect until 2014, and at that point those who don’t have coverage won’t face jail time.

Scammers exploit fears over health care bill [Victorville Daily Press]
(Thanks, Shawna!)

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