The Trump administration is doing just about everything in its power to destroy Obamacare from the inside, as documented by Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt. At the moment, their most destructive efforts are aimed at preventing people from signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in the enrollment period that opens November 1. They've slashed the budgets for outreach and consumer assistance, shortened the enrollment period, determined that they will take the website down for extended periods for "maintenance" throughout the process, and barred regional federal officials from helping states plan for it.
That's a drop in the whole sabotage bucket right now, but it's a big one because the fewer healthy people signing up, the more insurers struggle within the markets. But all is not lost, because a team of Obama administration veterans are stepping up with a sign-up campaign of their own.
Two former officials who worked on the sign-up campaigns for the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges when Barack Obama was president launched an initiative Wednesday called Get America Covered. In essence, it seeks to stand in for a federal government that, under President Donald Trump, is dramatically scaling back efforts to get the word out that enrollment season is about to begin."There needs to be an effort to basically try to fill in as many of the gaps as we can from what the administration is not doing," said Lori Lodes, co-founder of Get America Covered. "We have a clear sense of what they're not going to be doing, and it's a lot."
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