Vice President JD Vance announced 750,000 fraudulent Obamacare accounts have been removed from the rolls, saving taxpayers $2.2 billion yearly. “We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” Vance declared.
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The Trump administration is canceling Affordable Care Act enrollments covering more than 760,000 people as part of a sweeping effort to combat fraud and improper taxpayer-funded subsidies.
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that approximately 315,000 enrollments covering more than 760,000 individuals were canceled after officials determined they were unauthorized. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates the action will return roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.
“We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” Vance said.
The administration also plans additional eligibility verification for hundreds of thousands of other enrollments and has imposed a six-month suspension on new agents and brokers signing people up for coverage.
The crackdown follows evidence that vulnerabilities exist in the ACA marketplace. A Government Accountability Office investigation using fictitious applicants found the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for nearly all of its fake applicants during testing for the 2024 and 2025 plan years. GAO cautioned that its undercover testing was illustrative and could not be generalized to the entire ACA enrollment population.