These removals are expected to save taxpayers roughly $2.2 billion.
These removals are expected to save taxpayers roughly $2.2 billion. "We are stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people who we believe are fraudulently enrolled in the program," said the vice president, who has been leading the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on fraud nationwide.
"Those 750,000 people are people that we feel confident either don't know that they're enrolled in the program, aren't using the program at all, are unaware of it, or are potentially phantom people," he said, adding that some of the affected people may just be "a person who exists on paper who was created to defraud the American taxpayer."
VP Vance was tasked with leading the administration's anti-fraud task force, which has been taking down fraud across numerous federal industries and agencies nationwide.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief, Dr. Mehmet Oz, said during the press brief that a six-month moratorium on insurance professionals enrolling customers in Obamacare was being issued. "Fraud will destroy Obamacare," said Oz. "You cannot run an insurance business if you have no idea who's coming in."
"We have been writing them, Telexing them, you know, walking to them, FedExing, whatever we could possibly do to not get into touch with them. They won't answer, and they have never filed a claim," he explained. "So, it meets all the criteria for us, as much as any government can say, 'You actually don't know you have this or you don't exist.'"
In the past, Vance suspended 447 alleged hospice providers in California, placed a moratorium on providers of durable medical equipment for the Medicare program for the elderly, and announced that states would not receive low-income Medicaid reimbursement funds for certain programs that were thought to be at high risk of fraud, the NYP reported.
Trump has promised to repeal Obamacare if Republicans maintain control following the midterm elections in November.
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