All that screaming by Trump , Vance and DOGE about Fraud seems to have been a bit of a Exaggeration?
They ARE in the process of UN-Canceling people who where dropped from Obamacare ( Affordable Care Ac) Coverage for the WRONG reason’s…..
The Feds are waiting for Insurance companies to verify insurance enrollee’s information….
That process HAS found errors that has resulted in people being asked to re-enrolled after being told they where dropped….
Healthcare IS an issue for some voters and losing it by government cuts probably isn’t helping Republicans up for election in a few weeks….
Late last month, the Trump administration announced that it had cut 760,000 people from the Affordable Care Act rolls, claiming fraud and improper enrollments and touting billions in potential taxpayer savings.
Not all of those kicked off were fraudulently enrolled, KFF Health News has learned. Insurance industry sources said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reinstated a small number of people whose coverage should not have been canceled. More could follow in the coming weeks if enrollees discover they are uninsured when they go to use their coverage….
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Healthcare costs are tied with gas prices as a top concern for voters. It is likely that many removed from the ACA are in red states, such as Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Those areas saw rapid growth in ACA enrollment from 2020 to 2025, driven in part by now-expired enhanced subsidies put in place during Joe Biden’s presidency. Additionally, the cancellations target only states that use Healthcare.gov, the federal ACA marketplace. The 21 states fully running their own marketplaces generally have more robust fraud prevention programs and have reported few or none of the kinds of unauthorized sign-ups plaguing the federal marketplace….
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“This was clearly phantom enrollees,” said Paragon’s Blase. He thinks more than 99% of the cancellations are of zero-premium coverage that people were signed up for by rogue call centers without their knowledge, or for people who don’t exist at all.
Blase said the carriers had a big incentive to get hold of the enrollees because they would lose the subsidies they were being paid if the plans were canceled.
And for any people unfairly caught up, Blase and Trump administration officials say all they have to do to be reinstated is call the marketplace and provide their Social Security number or other missing information.
“Everyone has the political incentive for that process to be that easy,” Blase said. “We’re a month before the election.”
But, as prior reporting has shown, it isn’t always a quick process to get an ACA plan canceled or reinstated following an unauthorized sign-up or switch, even when a consumer discovers it themselves and reaches out to the marketplace.
Brokers and policy analysts note that some of the factors used to question enrollments — such as a plan’s having no claims filed in a year — are not that unusual. Many people, for example, don’t visit a doctor or hospital in a given year.
Insurers “want those healthy people in the insurance pool to help bring down the rates,” said Ronnell Nolan, president and CEO of Health Agents for America, a trade group for health insurance agents. “We’re against fraud, and CMS has allowed a lot of fraud to happen. But we don’t want people who just didn’t go to the doctor to be canceled.”
And even with the outreach required by CMS, not everyone answers phone calls from unknown numbers or opens their mail or emails…..
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Blaming people for NOT responding to hail’s to resign up isn’t gonna earn votes from people dropped in error in the first place…..
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