🇺🇸 A DOJ fraud official says 35% of Obamacare enrollees never used a doctor or a pharmacy, so they cannot be real. That 35% is a 2024 marketplace number, up from about 19% a few years earlier. Brokers, $0-premium plans, and missing Social Security numbers are a real mess, and m
Why now
Thesis: ACA fraud scrutiny raises policy risk
Catalyst to watch: DOJ action or CMS rule change
Main risk: Numbers may be overstated
Why it matters
Fraud findings in ACA enrollment could tighten subsidies and pressure insurers and brokers.
Details
🇺🇸 A DOJ fraud official says 35% of Obamacare enrollees never used a doctor or a pharmacy, so they cannot be real. That 35% is a 2024 marketplace number, up from about 19% a few years earlier. Brokers, $0-premium plans, and missing Social Security numbers are a real mess, and more than 760,000 enrollments already got pulled. After that much proven junk in the file, a fat unused-plan number is not shocking. A quiet year on insurance is still not automatically a fake person. Some of those files are people who stayed well, but again... given this context where fraud is being dismantled, you really never know. Writer: Lucas https://t.co/fAM39BGKih
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