Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that his White House Fraud Task Force will be removing 750,000 fraudulent ObamaCare recipients from the program in an effort he says will save U.S. taxpayers $2.2 billion. Additionally, the administration will be employing additional verification for a further 419,000 people. "We're going to make sure that they are, first of all, legal residents of the United States of America, and second of all, we're going to make sure that they actually meet the income threshold requirements in order to receive these Obamacare benefits," Vance said.
"To put into context, the amount of money that we're stopping from going to fraudsters today, $2.2 billion, the average American child receives about $4,000 in health care benefits every single year. That means that we are saving 550,000 American children's worth of healthcare that was going to fraudsters, and now will go to the essential services for which it was meant to go," he continued. VANCE TO HOST CONGRESS AT WHITE HOUSE TO DISCUSS LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON FRAUD Vance criticized the administration of former President Joe Biden for incentivizing ObamaCare fraud, arguing that the administration's incentives for brokers to enroll people in the program, combined with relaxed eligibility for the program, became the perfect recipe for rampant fraud.
WHITE HOUSE PUSHES 'WATERSHED' FRAUD-FIGHTING REFORM IN CONGRESS AS VANCE CONVENES TASK FORCE "In one case we found a fraud ring that had 40 agents, 40 brokerage agents who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently. Now, some of those people were probably legitimate. Most of those people were not eligible either they didn't meet the citizenship or the income requirements.
Many of those people quite literally didn't even exist." Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a fellow member of Vance's Fraud Task Force, further expanded on the non-existent individuals fraudulently entered into ObamaCare. OZ NAMES 5 STATES IN FRAUD CRACKDOWN AS TRUMP ADMIN TARGETS MEDICAID ABUSE "Normally 1%, a single digit, 1% of people who get Obamacare exchange plans do not have a Social Security number," Oz said.
"We're supposed to check their tax returns to make sure they're making between one and four times the poverty level, so they're eligible for all of our taxpayers to pay their insurance so they get the discount. Now, if 100% of people coming on the program don't have Social Security numbers, I think we'd all agree there's a problem," he continued. TRUMP ADMIN UNCOVERS 7,100% SURGE IN MEDICARE SKIN SUBSTITUTE CLAIMS, SAYS FRAUD CRACKDOWN BLOCKED MILLIONS Oz then revealed that over 1.1 million people who enrolled in ObamaCare this year had no Social Security numbers.
He also revealed that 35% of enrollees have never used the program. "They haven't bought a prescription medication. They haven't seen a doctor.
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