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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 05:20 PM Aug 2017

Affordable Care Act enrollment season still a mystery

By Amy Goldstein and Paige Winfield Cunningham
August 6 at 11:28 AM

As the fate of the Affordable Care Act dangled dramatically in the Senate last month, the Trump administration abruptly canceled contracts with two companies that have helped thousands of Americans in 18 cities find health plans under the law.

The suspension of the $22 million contracts, which ends enrollment fairs and insurance sign-ups in public libraries, is one of the few public signs of how an administration eager to kill the law will run the ACA’s approaching fifth enrollment season.

With that sign-up period less than three months away, the government appears to be operating on contradictory tracks, according to insurers, state insurance commissioners, health-policy experts and leaders of grass-roots groups that have worked to enroll the roughly 10 million consumers around the country who now have ACA coverage ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-first-affordable-care-act-enrollment-season-of-the-trump-era-is-still-a-mystery/2017/08/06/88f9bfda-7881-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.0c7642e26958

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Affordable Care Act enrollment season still a mystery (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
He is hellbent on killing millions of Americans dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
Enough "enrollment seasons" already. Ron Green Aug 2017 #2
One health care for all Not Ruth Aug 2017 #3

Ron Green

(9,822 posts)
2. Enough "enrollment seasons" already.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 05:39 PM
Aug 2017

One risk pool = a health care system. Multiple risk pools = an investment scheme.

We have enough investment schemes in this country. Let's build a health care system.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
3. One health care for all
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 06:08 PM
Aug 2017

Same benefits for everyone, we are live, we all die, in between, we should have identical health care

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