Hi, I’m Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., your HHS secretary. I’m joined today by my good friend and anti-fraud warrior, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. healthcare fraud and corruption affect millions of Americans and maybe even you.
The Obamacare Marketplace is Plagued by Healthcare Fraud
In large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails. All-partisan lawfare blocked common-sense efforts to protect taxpayers. Today, Dr. Oz and I are exposing one of the latest examples of healthcare fraud that we’ve uncovered.
Obamacare and Social Security Numbers
More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without Social Security numbers on file. That is a glaring warning sign of healthcare fraud. If even a single person was on Obamacare with no Social Security number, we should have found out why are we paying people who we don’t know if they actually exist.
Criminal Insurance Agents with Fake or Stolen Identities
Shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting paid to enroll unsuspecting Americans in healthcare plans they never signed up for. These rogue agents have been flooding into healthcare.gov. That’s the Obamacare marketplace. They submit applications for fake people, enroll stolen identities, all to collect millions of dollars in improper fees from insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately sold. Some of these insurance agents refuse to follow basic rules, like providing their clients’ Social Security number. That, my friends, is a huge red flag.
These healthcare fraudsters deliberately pick plans with no premiums. No premiums means no bill. No bill means most people never know that they’ve been enrolled in a healthcare fraud plan that you and I are paying for with our taxpayer dollars. The only people who benefit are the fraudsters.
Obamacare Fraud – Blocking Insurance Agents on healthcare.gov if They Don’t Follow Rules
Trump Administration Zero Tolerance for Healthcare Fraud. So here’s what we’re doing about it. In May, we took swift action to block this healthcare fraudulent behavior directly on healthcare.gov and through our marketplace call centers. If insurance agents want to be paid, they must follow the rules. No ifs, ands, or buts. They are going to have to provide government-verified information for their clients to be enrolled. Thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategy, we’ve already eliminated thousands of healthcare fraudulent policies and we’re just getting started. We’re also working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never have been issued and recover every taxpayer dollar that was fraudulently paid out.
Obamacare Fraud – Finding Ways to Block New Fraud
We’re also scaling up our enforcement efforts to prevent these bad actors from finding new ways to manipulate Obamacare and the healthcare system ahead of the open enrollment system this fall. Because we know the bad actors don’t simply stop when you cut off one vulnerable area. The Biden administration let healthcare fraudsters run wild. Thanks to President Trump, those days are over.
Message To ALL Fraudulent Insurance Agents Exploiting the American People
If you steal from the American taxpayer, or if you defraud American families, HHS will find you and we will hold you accountable. If you’re a healthcare fraudster, including insurance agents, here’s our advice to you. Do not walk away from us. Run. Because we are going to find you. We’re just getting started. This is the American people’s health. This is the American people’s money. The Trump administration is committed to protecting both. Thank you. Produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
