Obamacare Fraud Cost Taxpayers $65 Billion In 2024, Paragon Finds
14.3 million enrollees, a third of everyone on ACA exchanges and Medicaid expansion, were not eligible for the money.
- Exchange plans overpaid $22.3 billion to 5.1 million ineligible enrollees last year.
- Medicaid expansion sent $32.9 billion to 9.2 million enrollees who did not qualify.
- HHS validated Paragon's math in a March 2025 rule proposing tighter eligibility checks.
Why it matters: A subsidy that never checks who qualifies will keep paying people who do not.
Paragon Health Institute, "The Great Obamacare Enrollment Fraud" report ↗ · Aug 30, 20268/30/26