HHS Intent On Making ACA Re-enrollment As Painful As Possible

As it appears that Cassidy-Graham, the GOP’s latest attempt to gut Medicare and strip health care from millions, will likely fail, that will not stop the Trump administration and Tom Price from doing everything in their power to sabotage the ACA.

Trump has continually refused to say he will fund the CSRs, the subsidies for insurance companies that they rely on to provide for low-income enrollees. Price has also reduced the re-enrollment period at the end of the year by a month, ending it in mid-December now for those using healthcare.gov.

And now we hear that HHS will be shutting down the healthcare.gov website for 12 hours every Sunday but one during the re-enrollment period. In addition, the site will also be unavailable for 12 hours on November 1, the first day of the re-enrollment period. All of this is a petty and pathetic effort to make re-enrollment as difficult as possible.

Tom Price can spend $300,000 of taxpayer money using private jets. At the same time, he wants to make sure those same taxpayers have as hard a time as possible getting health insurance. What a pathetic, despicable, and petty human being. A typical Republican these days.