Trump administration officials said they booted thousands of people from their health coverage because they never filed claims and could not be contacted — and the internet had a field day pointing out the problem with the thinking.
On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that 760,000 people had been kicked off health insurance purchased in the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace, arguing those individuals were either enrolled fraudulently or did not exist. They said the initiative — part of a broader effort to crack down on fraud — would save about $2.2 billion in taxpayer dollars.
