A fair question. That deserves thoughtful reflection and study. And an honest and open consideration wrt desired outcomes.
Rather than this obvious attempt to further sabotage the program the Pubs have used since inception only for dishonest political point-making, healthcare effects be damned. Congress gets it enough to fail to repeal, but not Trump. So strategy continues to undermine it so as more people suffer from no coverage and higher costs (if covered) we'll all be more of a mind to accept a Pub plan replacement that will be structurally inferior.
Can't really back and forth much the next days....
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Trump Guts Budget for Obamacare Ads
Administration plans to sharply reduce ACA outreach budget
Experts say ads needed to attract people to insurance markets
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The Trump administration’s plan to slash spending on getting people to sign up for Obamacare will further undermine the law’s already fragile health insurance markets, according to health experts, insurers and people who helped implement the law.
On Thursday, the Health and Human Services department said it would cut the Affordable Care Act’s advertising budget by 90 percent, to $10 million, and would also reduce spending on groups that help customers find the appropriate insurance plan. The administration called the cuts necessary reductions for programs that have run their course and aren’t efficient.
Those who have studied the law or helped run it say otherwise. They say such drastic reductions look like efforts to let the program wither, as Trump has threatened, two months before sign-ups open.
“It seems perfectly appropriate to review outreach efforts and see if they can be done more efficiently, but these cuts are quite large,” said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group. “There’s no doubt that cuts to outreach and advertising will result in more people uninsured.”
Obamcare’s markets, similar to other insurance pools, are designed around the idea that healthy people’s premiums help subsidize the sick. Advertising helps attract those healthy people, said Sarah Gollust, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health who’s studied the effects of marketing the health law.
“If the health-insurance marketplace ends up with more sicker people relative to healthier people, premiums would rise -- sending healthier people out of the marketplace and further exacerbating the problem of high costs for everyone,” Gollust said in an email.
Ineffective Ads?
The Trump administration said the Obamacare ads are ineffective, though it
hadn’t formally studied them...
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