EXCLUSIVE: Trump HHS Severs Key Partnerships For Obamacare Outreach
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published AUGUST 14, 2017 6:00 AM
A wide array of groups that partnered for several years with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House to promote open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act say this year has brought a deafening silence from the Trump administration, with no sign the partnerships will continue.
Both representatives of the former partner groups and former HHS officials say the relationships with gig economy companies, youth organizations, churches, women’s groups, and African American and Latino civil rights non-profits were critical to keeping Obamacare’s markets functioning, and their termination is a clear example of sabotage.
“The failure to invest in local assistance and these enrollment partnerships will reduce enrollment, increase costs and drive up the uninsured rate,” warned Andy Slavitt, former head of HHS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama. “Hopefully they will reconsider taking these destructive actions.”
Without the partners’ help reaching out to young and healthy people who are less likely to sign up for health care, Slavitt explained, the government will find itself with a drastically smaller, older, sicker individual market with sky-high insurance rates.
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are in violation of the ACA law......................this may be a stupid question, but how do they get away with breaking a law?
I cannot just run around and not obey laws................the system is not composed to be run like anarchy
https://www.hhs.gov/about/index.html
And the mission statement says this:
It is the mission of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. We fulfill that mission by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services
