Healthcare Fraud in Obamacare Marketplace

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 fraud, in large

part because the Biden administration dismantled basic

program integrity guardrails, while partisan lawfare

blocked common sense efforts to protect taxpayers.

Today, Dr. Oz and I are exposing one of the latest examples of

fraud that

we've uncovered. More than a million people enrolled

in Obamacare without a Social Security number is on file.

That is a glaring warning sign of 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?

Shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting

paid to

enroll unsuspecting Americans in health 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 proper fees from

insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately

sold. Some of these agents refuse to follow

basic rules, like

providing their client's Social Security number.

That, my friends, is a huge red flag.

These 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 plan that you and I are paying

for with our taxpayer dollars. The only people who benefit

are the fraudsters.

The Trump administration has zero tolerance for that,

so here's what we're doing

about it. In May, we took swift action to block this

fraudulent behavior

directly on healthcare.gov and through our marketplace call center.

If an agent wants to be paid, they must follow the rules, no ifs, ands,

or buts.

They are gonna have to provide government-verified information for their

clients

to be enrolled.

Thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategy, we've already eliminated

thousands of 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.

We're also scaling up our enforcement efforts to prevent these bad actors from

finding new ways to manipulate the 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.

To every unscrupulous insurance agent and fraudster

exploiting the American people, here's our message.

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 fraudster, here's our advice to you.

Do not walk away from us.

Run, because we are gonna find you.

We're just getting started. This is the American people's health.

This is the American people's money, and the Trump administration is

committed to protecting both. Thank you.

What I'd like to see is that the money is made not to the health insurance or not

to the insurance companies, directly to the people into a

healthcare account, savings account, and the people buy their

own

healthcare. Now, the Democrats don't like

that because they're owned by the

insurance companies. The Democrats are owned by the insurance

companies. Obamacare, and I said this for a long time,

Obamacare was set up for the insurance companies.

They made a fortune. A thousand points, they've gone up 1,000,

1250,

1359%.

That's all the money pouring in. I want the money go to directly to

the people. Let the people buy their own healthca-

healthcare. Now, their healthcare is gonna be better,

and they'll be paying less money. It's gonna be amazing,

but we have to get the

Democrats to support it, most likely