Vice President JD Vance stated that fewer than 1 in 10,000 of the initial cancellations resulted in contact from an actual person. This action is part of a broader crackdown to stop improper payments to insurance companies and brokers, which included a separate removal of 189,000 duplicate enrollments led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Government officials say 2.8 million people were once concurrently enrolled in multiple programs, costing taxpayers $6 billion over a two year period.
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Trump Admin Reinstates Coverage for Some of 760,000 Purged Obamacare Enrollees
US Politics4 days ago
Federal regulators are reactivating medical benefits for a fraction of the users who lost their insurance in a recent government cleanup. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services previously terminated 760,000 marketplace accounts for being "phantom" enrollments, noting the users lacked Social Security numbers, paid zero premiums, and had no record of claims. The partial restoration of coverage follows claims from Democrats that the government stripped insurance from legitimate citizens.
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