The Trump administration is throwing more than 750,000 enrollees out of Affordable Care Act insurance markets, with Vice President JD Vance announcing the move Tuesday as part of a supposed campaign against fraud and abuse. It is a sweeping loss of health coverage dressed up as technological vigilance.

The administration is framing the removals as enforcement, but the enormous number of people affected makes the crackdown far more than a narrow effort aimed at a few bad actors. More than 750,000 enrollees now face the consequences of Trump’s fraud and abuse charade.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz also announced a six month pause on new brokers selling Affordable Care Act policies. The restriction further hurts health care exchanges that are already reeling from the loss of federal subsidies under President Donald Trump.

“There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next six months,” Oz said at a news conference.

Oz offered little reassurance to brokers who currently have permission to work through the exchanges. “So if you have an active exchange agreement, you can keep it in the system for now. We’ll see about you.”

That final warning hardly projects stability for people helping consumers find insurance policies. Existing brokers can remain for the moment, but Oz made clear that their longer term place in the system is uncertain while newcomers are completely blocked for six months.

Questions also remain about how the administration is identifying the people it considers fraudulent. Vance responded with an enthusiastic pitch for using technology and digital tools to track activity across government programs.

“My understanding is that we’re using technology and tools to identify fraud at breakneck pace,” Vance explained.

He then offered what he called a concrete example of how the administration believes its system can follow suspected fraud from one program to another. His description focused on the possibility that someone removed from one program might move to a similar program and attempt the same conduct there.

“So, one just very concrete example: when you cut off a fraudster from one program, they sometimes will try to go and milk another program, a similar program, but you can actually see, using modern digital technology tools, you can actually see when one person who is defrauding one program migrates to another program.”

Vance did not provide a fuller inventory of the administration’s methods during that explanation. Instead, he concluded with a remarkably vague assurance: “I’m sure there’s other ways.”

That breezy confidence is doing plenty of work when the administration is removing more than 750,000 people from Affordable Care Act markets. Vance’s explanation relied on broad claims about modern technology, while the actual policy carries immediate consequences for an enormous number of enrollees.

The administration’s fondness for technology deserves scrutiny, especially when its tools are being used to make decisions about access to health insurance. The source also questioned whether these were the same artificial intelligence tools that mistakenly led the United States to designate a girls’ school in Iran as a bombing target.

Vance then turned from stripping health coverage to taking a cheap swipe at the press. “I have my notes here that I’m supposed to take questions from CNN and Politico,” he said.

After asking whether anyone from CNN or Politico was present, Vance received no response described in the source. His attempt at humor landed with all the force of a damp paper towel, with crickets looking positively enthusiastic by comparison.

The paired announcements reveal the administration’s aggressive approach to Affordable Care Act markets. More than 750,000 enrollees are being removed while new brokers are barred from selling policies for six months, adding another strain to exchanges already suffering from the loss of federal subsidies.

Trump officials may call this a campaign against fraud and abuse, but their decisions hit people seeking coverage and the brokers who help them navigate the exchanges. For hundreds of thousands of enrollees, the administration’s technology powered sales pitch translates into something brutally simple: losing access to an Affordable Care Act insurance market.