White House to yank 750,000 fraudsters off ObamaCare, save taxpayers $2.2 billion, Vance says
Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that his White House Fraud Task Force will be removing 750,000 fraudulent ObamaCare recipients from the program in an effort he says will save U.S.taxpayers $2.2 billion.Additionally, the administration will be employing additional verification for a further 419,000 people."We're going to make sure that they are, first of all, legal residents of the United States of America, and second of all, we're going to make sure that they actually meet the income threshold requirements in order to receive these Obamacare benefits," Vance said."To put into context, the amount of money that we're stopping from going to fraudsters today, $2.2 billion, the average American child receives about $4,000 in health care benefits every single year.
That means that we are saving 550,000 American children's worth of healthcare that was going to fraudsters, and now will go to the essential services for which it was meant to go," he continued.VANCE TO HOST CONGRESS AT WHITE HOUSE TO DISCUSS LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON FRAUDU.S.Vice President JD Vance, flanked by Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr Mehmet Oz, and Chairman of the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission Andrew N.Ferguson, accepts questions during a press conference on anti-fraud initiatives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, D.C.
on Sept.22, 2026.
(REUTERS/Evan Vucci)Vance criticized the administration of former President Joe Biden for incentivizing ObamaCare fraud, arguing that the administration's incentives for brokers to enroll people in the program, combined with relaxed eligibility for the program, became the perfect recipe for rampant fraud.WHITE HOUSE PUSHES 'WATERSHED' FRAUD-FIGHTING REFORM IN CONGRESS AS VANCE CONVENES TASK FORCE"In one case we found a fraud ring that had 40 agents, 40 brokerage agents who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently.Now, some of those people were pro...