On June 29th, I posted an article about the amount of fraud in ObamaCare. It seems that there were more than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without Social Security numbers on file. That might be an indication of a fraud problem.
On Tuesday, The Epoch Times reported:
Obamacare enrollment declined by nearly 3 million in 2026, sparking renewed debate about the affordability of healthcare in America.
National politicians and policy experts disagreed on the reasons for the dip in enrollment, with some saying that it was driven by rising premiums.
Others said the decline was evidence that program integrity measures taken by the Trump administration were successful in rooting out fraud and waste.
The program grew significantly during the declared National Health Emergency from 2021 through 2024, when eligibility verification requirements were relaxed and participants were automatically reenrolled.
Enrollment peaked at 22.1 million last year and dropped to 19.2 million as of February, according to federal data released June 26.
Though that’s still higher than in any year except 2025, some analysts interpreted the decline as a massive loss of coverage resulting from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025.
…Others including Brian Blase, president of Paragon Health Institute, say that the changes mostly reverted to pre-pandemic coverage and policy rules, which had been an incentive for fraud.
“Excessive subsidies and zero-premium plans created unusually strong incentives for improper enrollment, while weak verification systems, permissive enrollment pathways, and insufficient oversight allowed those incentives to be exploited at scale,” Blase wrote in a June analysis.
The Trump Administration has focused on program integrity, preventing about 2.9 million enrollees from receiving Obamacare subsidies that they didn’t qualify for, according to a statement from the assistant secretary for Health and Human Services.
The government estimates that 2.6 million fraudulent enrollments remain in the program, down from an estimated high of 5.6 million last year.
I have no problem helping people afford health insurance. However, we have seen in the past that anything the government touches loses money, It’s time to get the government out of medicine and let the free market in. The free market would open competition between health insurance providers and health providers. We need competition in both areas. It could be done in a way that would insure that Americans get the healthcare they need regardless of their financial situation.