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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsList of actions taken by Trump to destroy-#sabotoge the #ACA....
The Call Is Coming From Inside the House
Donald Trump Is Destroying Obamacare From Within
http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-destroying-obamacare-from-within
Unable to repeal the law, the administration is trying to kill it with budget cuts. Officials in states like Michigan are now resorting to interns to sign people up for insurance.
09.28.17 9:00 PM ET
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And they have a case. While the funding cuts to the navigator program were draconian, they were also just the latest in a months-long effort to unwind Obamacare. To date:
The president has signed executive orders weakening the mandates requiring individuals to purchase insurance.
His administration has ended contracts with firms who have provided in-person assistance to states using healthcare.gov.
The Department of Health and Human Services has produced videos designed to undermine public support for Obamacare while using funds that were appropriate to help promote the law.
HHS has reconfigured its website to make enrollment information harder to access.
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There has been little apparent effort to engage non-government partners that have worked in the past to reach uninsured populations.
And at the end of August, CMS announced that it would slash funds for marketplace outreach by 90 percent.
Even more recently, the HHS decided not to participate in pre-enrollment events with a health advocacy groups.
Additionally, HHS announced that it will shut down the federal exchange site for 12 hours for all but one Sunday during the open enrollment season.
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One navigator who spoke with The Daily Beast said that theyve encountered potential enrollees who were either convinced that Obamacare had actually been repealed or were so confident in its impending demise that they didnt want to bother taking the time to sign up for insurance.
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They were trying to paint it as if the ACA was in a death spiral. They were trying to create as much uncertainty as possible to support their notion that Obamacare was imploding. And now theyre providing the gasoline.
Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI)
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List of actions taken by Trump to destroy-#sabotoge the #ACA.... (Original Post)
riversedge
Sep 2017
OP
Trump could no more decide on these actions than he could build Trump Tower himself.
Hortensis
Sep 2017
#3
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. Thanks for posting this
Very important to know.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)2. Kick.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Trump could no more decide on these actions than he could build Trump Tower himself.
They were plotted by others, given to him to sign -- when that was needed, and executed by others.