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HHS will take Healthcare.gov website offline nearly every Sunday midnight-noon of open enrollment
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HHS will take http://Healthcare.gov offline nearly every Sunday from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. of open enrollment, per presentation sent to me.
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HHS will take Healthcare.gov website offline nearly every Sunday midnight-noon of open enrollment (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2017
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Obamacare Repeal Might Be Dead. Trump's Effort to Sabotage the Law Is Very Much Alive.
dalton99a
Sep 2017
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(81,091 posts)1. Kick.
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(130,156 posts)2. Inform Congresscritters!
dalton99a
(81,091 posts)3. Obamacare Repeal Might Be Dead. Trump's Effort to Sabotage the Law Is Very Much Alive.
https://slate.com/business/2017/09/the-trump-administration-will-shut-down-healthcare-gov-on-sundays.html
Obamacare Repeal Might Be Dead. Trumps Effort to Sabotage the Law Is Very Much Alive.
By Jordan Weissmann
Sep. 22, 2017, 5:38 PM
Obamacare repeal appears to be dead. Again. Maybe. For the time being anyway. But in the meantime, the Trump administration is still moving forward with its backup plan to simply sabotage the laws exchanges by making sure the fewest possible people sign up for coverage.
Their latest move? Simply shutting down healthcare.gov on days when people are likely to shop for health coverage. Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News has tweeted that Department of Health and Human Services is planning to close the site from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. on most of the upcoming Sundays during open enrollment, which is only supposed to last a brief 45 days this year, thanks to a rule the administration released in April.
As Slavitts tweet points out, this is only the latest move by the administration to try and prevent Americans from signing up for health insurance on Obamacares exchanges, either by curtailing outreach or making the markets to harder to access. Last month, news broke that the Department of Health and Human Services would cut Obamacares ad budget by 90 percent, while slashing spending on navigators who help people sign up for insurance by 40 percent. Any one of these moves might not prove crippling to the law. But collectively, you can see how they might begin to add up.
Anyway, welcome to 2017, in which we have an executive branch fighting tooth and nail to make it harder for Americans to buy the health insurance to which theyre legally entitled.
Obamacare Repeal Might Be Dead. Trumps Effort to Sabotage the Law Is Very Much Alive.
By Jordan Weissmann
Sep. 22, 2017, 5:38 PM
Obamacare repeal appears to be dead. Again. Maybe. For the time being anyway. But in the meantime, the Trump administration is still moving forward with its backup plan to simply sabotage the laws exchanges by making sure the fewest possible people sign up for coverage.
Their latest move? Simply shutting down healthcare.gov on days when people are likely to shop for health coverage. Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News has tweeted that Department of Health and Human Services is planning to close the site from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. on most of the upcoming Sundays during open enrollment, which is only supposed to last a brief 45 days this year, thanks to a rule the administration released in April.
As Slavitts tweet points out, this is only the latest move by the administration to try and prevent Americans from signing up for health insurance on Obamacares exchanges, either by curtailing outreach or making the markets to harder to access. Last month, news broke that the Department of Health and Human Services would cut Obamacares ad budget by 90 percent, while slashing spending on navigators who help people sign up for insurance by 40 percent. Any one of these moves might not prove crippling to the law. But collectively, you can see how they might begin to add up.
Anyway, welcome to 2017, in which we have an executive branch fighting tooth and nail to make it harder for Americans to buy the health insurance to which theyre legally entitled.