Premiums, Not Fraud, to Blame for ACA Losses, Researchers Say

April 23, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

Obamacare sign-ups have dropped by over a million this year, and on Capitol Hill, Trump administration officials over the last week advanced a claim about those losses: They shouldn’t have been enrolled in those programs to begin with.

“The only people who lost coverage were people who were never entitled to coverage,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing Tuesday in response to questions from Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) about the decline in Affordable Care Act sign-ups.

Kennedy over a series of appearances before congressional committees attributed the ...

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