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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is slashing Obamacares advertising budget by 90%
The Trump administration plans to deeply cut Obamacare outreach and advertising, officials announced Thursday. They will reduce Obamacare advertising spending 90 percent, from the $100 million that the Obama administration spent last year to $10 million this year, and cut the budget for the in-person enrollment program by 41 percent.
Taken together, this represents a 72 percent cut to efforts to enroll eligible Americans into health law programs.
Administration officials cited diminishing returns from outreach activities. In a phone call with reporters, they said that most Americans already know about the Affordable Care Act. They plan to make the deepest cuts to the enrollment workers who have signed up few health law enrollees.
Obamacare advocates, however, worry that these type of budget cuts will be devastating to the law, making it difficult for potential enrollees to learn about the benefits.
"The surest way to kill the exchanges is to keep them a secret," says Timothy Jost, a consumer advocate at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. "Sick people will find them, but getting younger and healthier people enrolled is the problem."
Taken together, this represents a 72 percent cut to efforts to enroll eligible Americans into health law programs.
Administration officials cited diminishing returns from outreach activities. In a phone call with reporters, they said that most Americans already know about the Affordable Care Act. They plan to make the deepest cuts to the enrollment workers who have signed up few health law enrollees.
Obamacare advocates, however, worry that these type of budget cuts will be devastating to the law, making it difficult for potential enrollees to learn about the benefits.
"The surest way to kill the exchanges is to keep them a secret," says Timothy Jost, a consumer advocate at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. "Sick people will find them, but getting younger and healthier people enrolled is the problem."
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/31/16236280/trump-obamacare-outreach-ads
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Trump is slashing Obamacares advertising budget by 90% (Original Post)
CousinIT
Aug 2017
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spanone
(135,919 posts)1. Fuck You Trump
they will smother it.
Doodley
(9,163 posts)2. So it is going from an average of 30 cents per person per year to 3 cents.
haveahart
(905 posts)3. That's ok, he keeps plugging it overtime he opens his mouth. It's more popular than ever since
he started talking about repealing it.
dalton99a
(81,673 posts)4. He is hellbent on killing millions of Americans
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)5. This is why his approval rating hovers at 34%.
Which has reached a record unpopularity for a president so early into his first term.
All he has left is his RWNJ base who would vote for anyone or anything with an (R) behind their name.