Addressing Healthcare Fraud and Coverage

Not a single American patient was benefiting from the

problem we are fixing today, not one.

I will tell you who was benefiting, though.

Insurance agents and insurance companies were reaping billions of

dollars from these problems. No Americans were helped by this.

No patient was benefited by the duplicate coverage.

They were getting coverage from one or the other, and the money was otherwise

vanishing into the pockets of insurance agents and insurance companies.

If you care about the ACA, if you want the

ACA to work, you should be thanking every single person

on this stage

because the only way that it survives is if

these problems are fixed, that the fraud is stopped, and

that integrity is restored. It was a choice, a conscious

choice in the previous administration to do nothing about this, and it

helped no one. No patient was benefiting from this.

Rich insurance companies and unscrupulous brokers

were the only beneficiaries of

this. That is fixed today. Americans are gonna have

coverage today, tomorrow, from the programs that we are protecting.

No one loses coverage as a result of this, but money that was otherwise going to

enrich giant insurance companies and insurance brokers

is now gonna stay in these

programs and go to the people who actually need it, and that is what the

anti-fraud effort is ultimately about.