Trump Administration Delivers Second Year of Savings by Stopping Taxpayer Payments for Duplicate and Deceased Enrollees in Obamacare
WASHINGTON—October 14, 2026—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), continue to crush fraud, waste, and abuse in America’s healthcare programs by stopping duplicative enrollment in government health programs, with the potential to save taxpayers approximately $1.5 billion annually.
At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., Secretary Kennedy announced that in 2026, CMS identified 189,000 people with subsidized Obamacare coverage through the Federal Marketplace with duplicate Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, or who were deceased — and took swift action to remove Obamacare subsidies for these people to save taxpayer dollars.
About a month ago, Donald Trump announced another one of his shameless voter-bribe attempts in a desperate attempt to salvage what's expected to be a disastrous midterm election for Congressional Republicans:
RETURNING BIDEN OVERCHARGES TO WORKING FAMILIES: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the federal government will return to the American people hundreds of millions in Obamacare overcharges, collected by the Biden Administration, by issuing refunds of $500 per person to nearly 1 million Americans in 30 states. Today’s actions directly refund the Americans most exposed to the higher costs imposed by the Biden Administration’s gross mismanagement of Obamacare.
