Washington, D.C. — First reported in the Wall Street Journal, Vice President JD Vance’s phony anti-fraud task force will cancel subsidy payments for over 760,000 people purchasing coverage on the ACA Marketplace. Described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the largest administrative purges” under the Trump administration, this decision will force higher costs and throw thousands of otherwise eligible Americans off their coverage.
Donald Trump and his GOP allies claim to care about fraud, but Trump abused his power to pardon the nation’s biggest health care fraudsters while families have their health care ripped away. Last May, the Trump administration reinstated 850 brokers and agents suspected of fraud.
This news comes on the heels of the Trump administration gutting Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Costs have skyrocketed, and 8 million people have already lost their coverage, and that number will only get higher as Republicans continue their crusade on health care.
Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse issued a statement:
“This so-called task force is nothing more than a bullshit distraction — a political stunt designed to throw even more people off their coverage while pretending to save taxpayers’ money. At a time when millions of Americans are already losing coverage and facing skyrocketing costs, Vance and this administration are making the crisis exponentially worse. They are piling on more red tape, more confusion, and more opportunities for people to lose the coverage they rely on. Families need coverage they can afford and count on when they get sick. Vance’s task force won’t accomplish that. It’s a smokescreen for an administration whose sole mission is to make it harder to get and stay covered and shower billionaires with tax breaks instead.”