A government task force led by Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that it will remove 760,000 allegedly improper enrollments from the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces. The move is the latest in the administration’s efforts to pare back health coverage in the name of rooting out fraud and abuse. But given the administration’s track record, there are reasons to view this announcement with a heavy dose of skepticism. And the consequences of erroneous disenrollments can prove devastating.
The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is leading this extraordinarily large purge on the grounds that many of the enrollees do not exist or fail to meet eligibility requirements. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said hundreds of brokers and agents, who receive commissions per enrollee, have signed people up for marketplace plans without checking their eligibility. A…
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