ACA SABOTAGE: Price's HHS has told all 10 regional dirs NOT to participate in Open Enrollment Events

[CousinIT]

HHS has told all 10 regional directors NOT to participate in Obamacare open enrollment events

The Department of Health and Human Services has told states that for the first time, it will not be sending its regional directors to help states with planning for the upcoming open enrollment period.

Regional representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services will not be participating in open enrollment events in the states as they have in years past, according to an administration source and an email sent to health advocates in Mississippi obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The source, who had direct knowledge of the change, told BuzzFeed News that all of the department’s 10 regional directors were told to not to participate in state-based events promoting open enrollment — a significant change from years past.

The move follows a trend by the Trump administration of stepping away from past federal assistance for Obamacare and, particularly, of dialing back resources for the upcoming open enrollment period.

Health care advocates in Mississippi received an email on Monday, confirming the directive, and informing them that the department would “not be supporting marketplace efforts by being out in the regions this year.” (Vox first reported that officials would be pulling out of the events in Mississippi.)

“I will certainly miss the interaction and an opportunity to share departmental updates and positions, even though they have changed drastically,” wrote Deric Gilliard, a public affairs specialist from HHS’s regional Atlanta office. “My apologies for taking so long to provide a definitive answer. If someone would like to discuss further, please feel free to call me. All the best in your endeavors.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katenocera/the-trump-administration-wont-support-state-obamacare

[Autumn]

1. So it begins.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Right on cue.

The GOP signaled this in January,you just knew they would go here.

[oasis]

3. Price has decimated the Department's budget with his private jet travel.

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans squandering our tax money on their private luxuries

...as they set the wheels in motion to totally steamroll America's elderly, sick, disabled, and working class.

Deplorable.

[spanone]

4. ACA is the law, can they just ignore it?

[procon]

5. Isn't funding to promote open enrollment efforts already funded?

The ACA is still the law of the land, so don't these agencies have to at least minimally comply with the program?

I sure hope there are lawsuits to force Trump to stop actively sabotaging the ACA and let new enrollments continue.

[enough]

6. Agreed. NT

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. HHS has told all 10 regional directors NOT to participate in Obamacare open enrollment events

Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold

HHS has told all 10 regional directors NOT to participate in Obamacare open enrollment events

Link to tweet

[maxsolomon]

9. elections have consequences, part MCXXVIII

sabotage was plan B. they're happy to do it, because they'll run on it in 18, 20, 22, 24, etc. ad nauseum

[malaise]

10. I asked earlier this year is there is a penalty for sabotaging a law

Dotard has also been sabotaging Obamacare.

[CousinIT]

11. SEE ALSO - under "Republican Efforts to Sabotage the ACA"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029650092

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[Grammy23]

13. If they can't kill it one way ---

They will starve it to death. The agency I used to work for before I retired had navigators who were supposed to help our clients (and others in the community) research their options to get health insurance. They received training so they could understand the options and direct people how to jump through the hoops to get insured.

The idea that they would deliberately cut off funds for those whose job is to assist people obtain health insurance---some for the first time in their lives---is just unconscionable. I wish I believed in hell, because if I did, I would hope the fiends who came up with the "starve them to death" plan end up there.

[Thrill]

14. He should be called in front of Congress Immediately

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