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"Trump’s Obamacare
Attacks Backfire As Open Enrollment Surges To Record Highs
The Trump administration
has been deliberately trying to prevent people from signing up for
health insurance. So far, it is backfiring spectacularly.
Donald Trump has been
hell-bent on repealing Obamacare since day one in office. And...Trump has
taken matters into his own hands.
After
signing executive orders to exempt several health plans from
Obamacare consumer protections, killing cost sharing payments to
insurers, and pulling funds to advertise open enrollment, Trump might
have thought the law was doomed.
Fortunately for the
American people, his plan has not worked.
In fact, according to The
Hill, Obamacare enrollment at healthcare.gov is actually higher than
it was at this point in last year’s open enrollment:
“ On the first day of
enrollment alone, Nov. 1, one source close to the process told The
Hill that more than 200,000 people selected a plan for 2018, compared
with about 100,000 last year. More than 1 million people visited
healthcare.gov that day, compared to about 750,000 last year, the
source said.“
The open enrollment period
lasts until Dec. 15, and there is no way to know whether signups will
continue at their current pace. However, numbers so far suggest that
consumers still know where to go to get health care, and are sticking
with their coverage. … “
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πΊπΊπΊ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
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