After booting 760K off ACA health plans, the Trump administration adds some people back
The Trump administration recently disenrolled 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans, citing fraud, though some individuals were later reinstated after being found to have been improperly removed. Policy experts and insurance industry sources continue to question the transparency and accuracy of the administration's anti-fraud sweep.
Why it matters
This highlights the tension between administrative efforts to reduce government spending and the potential for bureaucratic errors to disrupt essential healthcare access.
Late last month, the Trump administration announced that it had cut 760,000 people from the Affordable Care Act rolls, claiming fraud and improper enrollments and touting billions in potential taxpayer savings .
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Not all of those kicked off were fraudulently enrolled, KFF Health News has learned. Insurance industry sources said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reinstated a small number of people whose coverage should not have been canceled. More could follow in the coming weeks if enrollees discover they are uninsured when they go to use their coverage.
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