{"id":731,"date":"2025-07-30T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:14:07","slug":"millions-double-enrolled-on-medicaid-billions-wasted-on-this-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/millions-double-enrolled-on-medicaid-billions-wasted-on-this-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"MILLIONS DOUBLE ENROLLED ON MEDICAID, BILLIONS WASTED ON THIS FRAUD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-11 col-lg-10 col-xl-8\">\n<header class=\"article-header mb-30 mb-sm-60 text-center\">\n<h1 class=\"title-lg\">Administration Finds Millions of Individuals Double Enrolled in Taxpayer-Funded Coverage<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-11 col-md-10\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6127243966_f7498fca9d_k-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"healthcare money under a pill bottle\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/59937401@N07\/6127243966\/in\/photolist-akrJam-e34oHW-e2XGV6-e34oSN-2qVZ7zh-2qWaeMA-2qW63dY-2kSTWcB-79mZQ8-f2t5eV-f2t5gk-a5NSD3-a5NSHL-a5L1Wt-a5L22T-2gn4LLZ-2qWaeMf-eEF7n7-2qVYaGG-tjb9eR-eavcNr-tAHYLK-nr8Z5F-dZTSuB-dZTUKg-dZZxnd-drG98f-dZTXtk-tAEDSn-drFZ3T-dZZCkd-eaAScS-dZTNoX-dZZzGy-dZZyVm-drG929-dZZvCw-dZTQ7V-drFZYX-U3Tp7r-dZTRPr-eaAS4J-2qW635g-drGsG4-eaASkh-drG9ry-2qW4ufn-2r7S6VN-73EkV5-2qW4SWf\">Images Money\/Flickr<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div id=\"stickypbModal2418\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1639588969819-0\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1011927,45516661\/TFC_BTFLeaderboard_1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-11 col-lg-10 col-xl-8 col-xxl-7\">\n<div class=\"article-excerpt body-lg bdr-btm-black pb-30 pb-md-45 mb-30 mb-sm-45\">\n<p>The existence of duplicate payments demonstrates the left\u2019s desire to make all Americans dependent upon government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-offset\">\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/30\/administration-finds-millions-of-individuals-double-enrolled-in-taxpayer-funded-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>Earlier this year, The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/04\/report-medicaid-double-payments-cost-taxpayers-4-3-billion-in-three-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highlighted<\/a> a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/medicaid-double-payments-insurers-states-1c091b41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> that found taxpayers had spent billions paying for individuals who had enrolled in Medicaid in multiple states simultaneously. The kicker is not surprising but still shocking: As bad as the Journal expos\u00e9 seemed, the reality is worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-finds-28-million-americans-potentially-enrolled-two-or-more-medicaid\/aca-exchange-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> increased both the number of enrollees with duplicate forms of taxpayer-funded coverage and the amount taxpayers are paying for such unnecessary double-dipping. It provides an example \u2014 one <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/15\/report-medicaid-recipients-the-gop-made-work-part-time-watch-tv-and-relax-6-hours-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">of many<\/a> \u2014 to rebut leftist claims that the recently passed budget reconciliation bill will somehow <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/20\/republicans-dont-buy-democrats-lies-about-medicaid-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroy the safety net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1419711469\" class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1011927,45516661\/TFC_300_by_250_top_1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><strong>Explosion of Wasteful Spending<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/medicaid-double-payments-insurers-states-1c091b41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> of Medicaid data from 2019 to 2021 found taxpayers spent $4.3 billion over three years, providing duplicate coverage to an average of 660,000 people per year. The Trump administration recently examined what happened after four years of Biden administration policies, designed to promote enrollment in taxpayer-funded coverage at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-finds-28-million-americans-potentially-enrolled-two-or-more-medicaid\/aca-exchange-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of 2024 enrollment data concluded that, last year, \u201can average of 1.2 million Americans each month were enrolled\u201d in Medicaid in multiple states \u2014 nearly double the level of duplicate enrollment cited by the Journal in the opening years of the Biden presidency. Moreover, CMS also noted that another \u201c1.6 million Americans each month were enrolled in both Medicaid\u201d and taxpayer-subsidized coverage on the insurance Exchange plans.<\/p>\n<p>According to CMS, the total cost of all this unnecessary spending on a total of 2.8 million duplicate enrollments is $14 billion per year \u2014 more than three times the $4.3 billion figure the Journal reported earlier this year. CMS didn\u2019t specify if that $14 billion figure represented total Medicaid costs (i.e., including the share of Medicaid costs that states pay themselves), or only the potential costs to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it represents a large amount. For purposes of comparison, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2024-06\/51301-2024-06-medicaid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated<\/a> that, during the last fiscal year, the federal government would spend $607 billion on Medicaid. Simply eliminating the duplicate payments would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly 2.3 percent \u2014 without doing <em>anything<\/em> to harm beneficiaries, who would still have taxpayer-funded coverage, just not in multiple places at once.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Phony Coverage Losses?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The CMS data highlights two important points regarding Medicaid and taxpayer-funded insurance programs. First, the discussion about the number of individuals who will \u201close\u201d coverage seems overstated.<\/p>\n<p>CBO has yet to release detailed coverage estimates regarding the final version of the bill, enacted into law. But the case described above demonstrates the absurdity of this type of exercise. The left might scream about 2.8 million people \u201closing\u201d coverage \u2014 even though they \u201clost\u201d coverage <em>only on paper<\/em> and are still insured elsewhere (and at taxpayer expense) in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the other supposed \u201closses\u201d from the legislation fall into similar buckets: individuals who choose not to comply with the new work requirements, undocumented migrants denied taxpayer-funded coverage for public policy reasons, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>A good percentage of Americans would have few qualms about lawmakers making these types of reasonable policy judgments. And yet the left hopes to overwhelm such rational behavior with screaming headlines talking about Trump taking away health care from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/trump-medicaid-big-beautiful-bill-americans-uninsured-1235379423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15 million Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welfare-Industrial Complex<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>More fundamentally, the fact that these types of duplicate payments can exist, have existed for many years, and grew substantially under the last administration demonstrates the left\u2019s desire to make all Americans dependent upon government.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration self-evidently had little interest in controlling spending on individuals obtaining taxpayer-funded coverage from multiple sources. Even if it wasted taxpayer funds \u2014 and even if the multiple payments fattened the coffers of insurance companies, who got paid to provide coverage that beneficiaries never used \u2014 Biden\u2019s CMS simply wanted to juice the enrollment numbers by any means necessary.<\/p>\n<p>With this kind of attitude, it seems little wonder that our federal government faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/national-debt-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$36 trillion<\/a> in debt and counting. Ending the nonsense of people enrolled in duplicate coverage won\u2019t solve the debt problem on its own, but recent actions by CMS \u2014 not to mention Congress in the reconciliation bill \u2014 to expose this madness and stop it provide a welcome dose of common sense for a change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1067956877\" class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content d-flex justify-content-center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-3\" class=\"mb-30\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1011927,45516661\/TFC_300_by_600_1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration Finds Millions of Individuals Double Enrolled in Taxpayer-Funded Coverage Image CreditImages Money\/Flickr\/CC BY 2.0 The existence of duplicate payments demonstrates the left\u2019s desire to make all Americans dependent upon government. \u00a0Earlier this year, The Federalist highlighted a Wall Street Journal investigation that found taxpayers had spent billions paying for individuals who had enrolled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frauds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}