750,000 cut. $2.2 billion. 1.1 million with no SSN. Keep those three stamps.
White House to yank 750,000 fraudsters off ObamaCare, save taxpayers $2.2 billion, Vance says
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Seven hundred fifty thousand names. Two-point-two billion. Dr. Oz says 1.1 million had no Social Security number.
Summary
- Fox News reports Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that the White House Fraud Task Force will remove 750,000 fraudulent Obamacare recipients and save taxpayers $2.2 billion, with extra verification for another 419,000 people.
- Vance said the cutoff is legal U.S. residency plus the income band, and that $2.2 billion equals about 550,000 American children's worth of $4,000-a-year health benefits that had been going to fraud.
- CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, on the same task force, said more than 1.1 million people who enrolled this year had no Social Security number, and that 35 percent of enrollees have never used a doctor or a prescription.
- Oz cited a ring of 40 brokerage agents that funneled 50,000 people onto the exchanges, many of whom did not exist, and the DOJ case against Cory Lloyd and Stephen Strong, who bribed homeless and jobless people into ACA plans for commissions.
Commentary
A shop dad still pays the premium on a cracked linoleum break room and knows $4,000 a year is supposed to mean a kid's checkup, not a ghost name with no Social Security number. He did not clock overtime so 40 brokers could sell a stack that never saw a doctor.
750,000 off the books. 419,000 more to verify. 1.1 million with no SSN. 35 percent never used the card. The vinyl chair in that clinic still holds the honest household that paid both ends.
Look every working father who still buys the deductible after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if 750,000 already failed the residency-and-income test, who still owns the next 1.1 million names with no number?
Comments
I stood a gate so a benefit card still meant a name. A ghost enrollment is not a weather report.
Vance: residency plus income. Oz: 35 percent never used a doctor. Print both.
Allied clinics still treat a missing SSN as a breach, not a paperwork shrug.
40 agents. 50,000 names. Lloyd and Strong. File the three.
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next fake exchange card empty of a load.
A $4,000 kid benefit is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A 40-broker ring next to 1.1 million blank numbers is a second border around every honest clinic.
Fox printed 750,000, $2.2 billion, and 1.1 million. Argue those nouns.
Hold the task force. Keep the SSN check. A ghost card is not a souvenir.