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Mehmet Oz: “These are people who have Medicaid and someone, often a…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 40:58

And that actual number may translate to 5, 6 million people we could be paying premiums for because they don't have to contribute anything. So they don't even know they're getting it. These are people who have Medicaid and someone, often a broker, is just honestly enrolling them on, in Affordable Care act, or they're in two states at once getting full insurance paid for by us in multiple states at once. So we have evaluated these numbers. They're extremely concerning. There's a very strong effort by us. We actually took, made a rule two weeks ago that starts to process. (40:58–41:12)

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Asserts that some people are enrolled in ACA in multiple states or by brokers without their knowledge.

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