The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud — led by Vice President JD Vance — has removed 750,000 Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange enrollments that he said are suspected of being fraudulent, unauthorized, or ineligible.
Vance said the action would cancel subsidy payments and save an estimated $2.2 billion.
The affected enrollments include people who allegedly did not know they were enrolled in ACA — also also known as Obamacare — as well as those who had access to employer-sponsored coverage or earned more than the income limits for subsidized marketplace plans.
“We are stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people — 750,000 people — who we believe are fraudulently enrolled in the program. That’s number one,” Vance, along with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, announced during a news conference…
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