Trump #sabatoge -- Trump administration scraps Obamacare signup assistance in 18 cities

These actions really are sabotage!!





Trump administration scraps Obamacare signup assistance in 18 cities

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/trump-administration-scraps-obamacare-signup-assistance-in-18-cities.html
The Trump administration has ended Affordable Care Act contracts that brought assistance to 18 cities.
People will have 45 days to shop for 2018 coverage, half the time of previous years.
President Trump has said in multiple interviews that he would like to "let Obamacare fail."

Thursday, 20 Jul 2017 | 4:02 PM ETThe Associated Press



President Donald Trump's administration has ended Affordable Care Act contracts that brought assistance into libraries, businesses and urban neighborhoods in 18 cities, meaning shoppers on the insurance exchanges will have fewer places to turn for help signing up for coverage.

Community groups say the move, announced to them by contractors last week, will make it even more difficult to enroll the uninsured and help people already covered re-enroll or shop for a new policy. That's already a concern because of consumer confusion stemming from the political wrangling in Washington and a shorter enrollment period.

People will have 45 days to shop for 2018 coverage, starting Nov. 1 and ending Dec. 15. In previous years, they had twice that much time.

Some see it as another attempt to undermine the health law's marketplaces by a president who has suggested he should let "Obamacare" fail. The administration, earlier this year, pulled paid advertising for the sign-up website HealthCare.gov, prompting an inquiry by a federal inspector general into that decision and whether it hurt sign-ups..........................................




.................."What is the goal of the Trump administration here? Is it to help people? Or to undermine the Affordable Care Act?" said Rob Restuccia, executive director of Boston-based Community Catalyst, a group trying to preserve the health care law.