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.
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Trump really wants Obamacare to fail. What I don't get is why he wants "Trumpcare" in it's place. There is no viable alternative, except to scrap it all and legislate the insurance companies.
Here is an idea: Instead of depending on the government to take care of pre-existing conditions, maybe it would be prudent to create a co-op for pre-existing conditions, in which everyone who wants to pays into it to help cover the bills for everyone. It would be voluntary, not mandated, and it would be beneficial. Insurance companies could be legislated to offer a package for that, rather than make everyone pay into it and inconveniencing those who have no pre-existing conditions. There are charities available for that.
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