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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fatima Hussein

Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims

Vance - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist.

Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings.

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