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highplainsdem

(48,988 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:47 PM Jan 2017

Reversing course, Trump administration will continue Obamacare outreach

Source: Politico

The Trump administration has reversed plans to scrap all Obamacare outreach in the finals days of the law's enrollment period, a day after the move sparked outcry from the law's supporters and health insurers.

HHS officials on Friday said automatic phone calls and other online and digital outreach — including Twitter messages and emails — would continue through the Jan. 31 deadline for obtaining coverage.

Officials also said they were unable to pull back some HealthCare.gov radio and TV advertising that had been purchased by the Obama administration. HHS was able to cancel about $4 million to $5 million in ads, a spokesman said.

"Once an assessment was made, we pulled back the most expensive and least efficient part of this massive ad campaign which was set to run over the weekend," said an HHS spokesman. "Those costs savings will be returned to the U.S. Treasury.”

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/obamacare-message-healthcare-gov-trump-234278

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Reversing course, Trump administration will continue Obamacare outreach (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2017 OP
Now, was that so hard? tenorly Jan 2017 #1
Nothing decent about this. It's almost the entire ad buy being cancelled progree Jan 2017 #17
I see. Thanks. tenorly Jan 2017 #20
Not your fault. The Politico title is beyond very misleading, and the article provided no context on progree Jan 2017 #21
This administration is nuts. LeftInTX Jan 2017 #2
They really are making this up marybourg Jan 2017 #3
"We meant to do that..." Blue Idaho Jan 2017 #4
It's a smooth running machine, isn't it? mobeau69 Jan 2017 #5
I called my Representative They_Live Jan 2017 #6
They don't think anything through.... mtngirl47 Jan 2017 #7
Is he going to rename it "Trumpcare" and then take credit for it? BlueStater Jan 2017 #8
I'll take it flamingdem Jan 2017 #11
He could even get a better version now without congressional Repubs and Repub govs deurbano Jan 2017 #12
must have been a couple of necks busted on that pivot rurallib Jan 2017 #9
Wearing the big boy pants elmac Jan 2017 #10
The Positive Seems to Be Ccarmona Jan 2017 #13
So they're still pulling $4-5 million in ads. briv1016 Jan 2017 #14
They must have upped his thorazine dosage. Prisoner_Number_Six Jan 2017 #15
Republicans will own that lock, stock, and barrel homegirl Jan 2017 #16
What a misleading title. Reverse course my fucking ass. They cancelled almost the entire ad buy progree Jan 2017 #18
any other administration would be crucified for such foolish behavior Blue_Adept Jan 2017 #19
REPUBLICARE! Big Mike Jan 2017 #22

progree

(10,908 posts)
17. Nothing decent about this. It's almost the entire ad buy being cancelled
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:35 PM
Jan 2017
HHS was able to cancel about $4 million to $5 million in ads, a spokesman said.


That's almost the whole thing. This from yesterday:

Trump Acts To Sabotage Obamacare Enrollment, Days Before Deadline, Huffington Post, 1/26/17

An HHS spokesperson told Demko that the Trump administration had decided to cancel the final installment, worth about $5 million, in order “to look for efficiencies where they exist.”

The timing is critical. The open enrollment period for 2017 ends next week, on Jan. 31, and traditionally, signups have surged in the final days before the deadline.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-enrollment_us_588a9451e4b0230ce61b0b40

progree

(10,908 posts)
21. Not your fault. The Politico title is beyond very misleading, and the article provided no context on
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 12:18 AM
Jan 2017

the "$4 million to $5 million in ads". I just happened to somehow remember the $5 million figure from yesterday's story

They_Live

(3,233 posts)
6. I called my Representative
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:05 PM
Jan 2017

and both Senators again today with very long list of terrible crap going on in DC. Cornyn's voice mail was completely full. But i left long messages for Ted Cruz and Lamar Smith. I told them they have destroyed America in one week.

Call all of them all the time!

mtngirl47

(989 posts)
7. They don't think anything through....
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:08 PM
Jan 2017

Just shooting from the hip and keeping everyone off balance.

If this is how he ran his businesses--no wonder all the bankruptcies.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
8. Is he going to rename it "Trumpcare" and then take credit for it?
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:09 PM
Jan 2017

His supporters are certainly stupid enough to buy that.

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
12. He could even get a better version now without congressional Repubs and Repub govs
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:42 PM
Jan 2017

aggressively trying to obstruct the success of anything that might give an advantage to Democrats, no matter how much the obstruction screws over their own constituents. He could just rebrand it and claim the success as his own. BUT... he and the rest of that sorry lot do not tend to think logically, humanely or sanely, so who knows?

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
9. must have been a couple of necks busted on that pivot
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:17 PM
Jan 2017

hope they have something better than HSAs and terrible Texas insurance to pay for it.

 

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)
13. The Positive Seems to Be
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:46 PM
Jan 2017

That they can't take the heat from the people. Ya right...the heat came from the Insurance Lobby.

briv1016

(1,570 posts)
14. So they're still pulling $4-5 million in ads.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:53 PM
Jan 2017

They're just leaving in place the stuff they couldn't get a refund on.

Let's be perfectly clear, people will die from this.

homegirl

(1,429 posts)
16. Republicans will own that lock, stock, and barrel
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:22 PM
Jan 2017

Republicans expressed a number of concerns Thursday about how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a recording of a meeting obtained by The Washington Post.

"We'd better be sure that we're prepared to live with the market we've created," California Rep. Tim McClintock said. "That's going to be called Trumpcare. Republicans will own that lock, stock, and barrel, and we'll be judged in the election less than two years away."

Recordings from the private meeting at a Philadelphia Republican retreat were sent to the Post and other news outlets from an anonymous email address. Lawmakers or their offices that were heard in the recordings confirmed the remarks were genuine, The Post reported.

A long-term solution is a top concern for the legislators: "Our goal, in my opinion, should be not a quick fix. We can do it rapidly — but not a quick fix. We want a long-term solution that lowers costs," Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said.

Texas Rep. Pete Sessions said a refundable tax credit idea would not work for middle-class families who could not afford to prepay their insurance premiums, then wait on a tax refund.

progree

(10,908 posts)
18. What a misleading title. Reverse course my fucking ass. They cancelled almost the entire ad buy
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:43 PM
Jan 2017

Title:

Reversing course, Trump administration will continue Obamacare outreach, Politico, 1/27/27


HHS was able to cancel about $4 million to $5 million in ads, a spokesman said.


That's precisely damn near the whole goddam fucking thing. This from yesterday:

Trump Acts To Sabotage Obamacare Enrollment, Days Before Deadline, Huffington Post, 1/26/17

An HHS spokesperson told Demko that the Trump administration had decided to cancel the final installment, worth about $5 million, in order “to look for efficiencies where they exist.”

The timing is critical. The open enrollment period for 2017 ends next week, on Jan. 31, and traditionally, signups have surged in the final days before the deadline.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-enrollment_us_588a9451e4b0230ce61b0b40

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
19. any other administration would be crucified for such foolish behavior
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:55 PM
Jan 2017

But there's so much of it that the heads are spinning with gish gallop of a massive scale.

Big Mike

(5 posts)
22. REPUBLICARE!
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 01:43 AM
Jan 2017

REPUBLICARE!
REPUBLICARE!
REPUBLICARE!

Dont let them hide their participation in this by hiding behind The Presidents name.
If we can get REPUBLICARE! to be the name of whatever they try to cobble together....then this thing will tar them all forever.

The first time Ryan sees REPUBLICARE! in print....it will be like a giant hairy fist closing around his....wait....what are the rules on this site? I need to check.

#REPUBLICARE

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