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
tenorly
(2,037 posts)To do something decent for a change.
progree
(10,908 posts)That's almost the whole thing. This from yesterday:
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
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Should have guessed.
progree
(10,908 posts)the "$4 million to $5 million in ads". I just happened to somehow remember the $5 million figure from yesterday's story
LeftInTX
(25,346 posts)marybourg
(12,631 posts)as they go along. Design/build government.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Is becoming their mantra...
mobeau69
(11,144 posts)OMG!
They_Live
(3,233 posts)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)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)His supporters are certainly stupid enough to buy that.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)I'm very worried at this point they'll dump it all
deurbano
(2,895 posts)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)hope they have something better than HSAs and terrible Texas insurance to pay for it.
elmac
(4,642 posts)is giving them cold feet.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)That they can't take the heat from the people. Ya right...the heat came from the Insurance Lobby.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)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.
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)homegirl
(1,429 posts)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)Title:
That's precisely damn near the whole goddam fucking thing. This from yesterday:
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)But there's so much of it that the heads are spinning with gish gallop of a massive scale.
Big Mike
(5 posts)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