Trumpie Working Overtime to Discourage People From Getting Health Care

Massive Cut to Funds to Sign Up Citizens for Obamacare

The hostility of Republicans to providing health insurance for people who otherwise would not have health insurance is well known. And now that Obamacare is not failing, not in a death spiral, not collapsing, well Republicans have to come up with something else to kill it. So what they are doing is cutting funds that support programs to get people to get insurance.

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $10 million during the coming open-enrollment period on advertising, including emails, texts, radio ads and digital promotions, officials said Thursday. That is a 90% drop from about $100 million spent by former President Barack Obama’s administration during the last open-enrollment season.

So when less people sign up, and rates have to grow up, obviously the fault will be with Obamacare.