Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly trying to bring some integrity to these programs and ensure that only those needy individuals who are eligible for publicly funded health coverage under the law can claim it.
CBO predicts that the bill will boot 10.9 million people off Medicaid or the exchanges. Another 5.1 million people will supposedly lose marketplace coverage if the Biden administration’s enhanced premium subsidies for exchange coverage expire, as scheduled, at the end of the year.
Those estimates are likely overstated. Even so, many of those potential coverage losses represent people currently claiming benefits to which they are not legally entitled.
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Consider the extent of improper enrollment in the exchanges. Between 4
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