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Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Complaints about enrollment fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage have bedeviled the federal marketplace for years. Now, the Trump administration is claiming wins in reducing the problem while simultaneously saying more controls are needed. It has proposed a sweeping se...
The strongest version of this narrative highlights legitimate concerns about fraud in the ACA marketplace, particularly unauthorized enrollments by rogue agents, and frames the Trump administration’s proposed regulations as a necessary corrective. The administration deserves credit for targeting specific vulnerabilities, such as misleading marketing practices and income verification loopholes, while acknowledging the trade-offs involved. However, the pattern scan reveals potential distortions: t...