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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 ACAs 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
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)by sabotaging the ACA
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)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)Same benefits for everyone, we are live, we all die, in between, we should have identical health care