{"id":908723,"date":"2026-09-25T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908723\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:54:08","slug":"opinion-vances-crackdown-on-aca-premium-fraud-is-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908723\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Vance&#8217;s crackdown on ACA premium fraud is overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ATD54ZCKT5DO7P5J7YTZNIRA7I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">You might think ensuring that Obamacare enrollees are real people would be a bipartisan cause, but these days there can be no reduction in the rolls \u2014 no matter how legitimate \u2014 without demagoguery.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KE5Z4TAX4FF3PMKUBWMUBAMWTM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Vice President JD Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-officials-plan-cut-hundreds-thousands-aca-claiming-fraud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced Tuesday<\/a> that his anti-fraud task force is canceling about 760,000 enrollees of zero-premium health plans under the Affordable Care Act and performing additional verification for another 419,000 accounts. The federal government expects to save an estimated $2.2 billion this year with the disenrollments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might think ensuring that Obamacare enrollees are real people would be a bipartisan cause, but these days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-908723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}