Trump team strips healthcare from 750K people– www.dailykos.com
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Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is kicking more than 750,000 enrollees out of the Affordable Care Act insurance markets as a part of the administration’s fraud-and-abuse charade.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz also debuted a six-month pause on new brokers selling ACA policies, hurting healthcare exchanges that are already reeling from the loss of federal subsidies under President Donald Trump.
“There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next six months,” Oz said at a news conference. “So if you have an active exchange agreement, you can keep it in the system for now. We’ll see about you.”
And how are they going about figuring out who is allowed to retain their insurance and who gets a visit from a Department of Justice?
“My understanding is that we’re using technology and tools to identify fraud at breakneck pace,” tech-bro-enamored Vance explained. “So, one just very concrete example: when you cut off a fraudster from one program, they sometimes will try to go and milk another program, a similar program, but you can actually see, using modern digital technology tools, you can actually see when one person who is defrauding one program migrates to another program. I’m sure there’s other ways.”

