Wednesday, November 8, 2017

#StrongerTogether ! Trump Effort to Stop People from Signing up for Affordable Healthcare "is backfiring ..."



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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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