Trump sabotage seen on ObamaCare

[oberliner]

The Trump administration is taking a hatchet to ObamaCare after failing to pass legislation through Congress repealing President Obama’s signature law.

The administration has cut funding for advertising and outreach by 90 percent, raising the odds that fewer people will join the health care exchanges in the fall enrollment period.

It has slashed funds by 41 percent for outside groups that help reach and enroll likely ObamaCare consumers.

The enrollment period has also been chopped in half, and the administration announced plans to take down the Healthcare.gov website for maintenance for hours at a time on several days during the sign-up period, two other steps likely to cut into enrollment.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/354308-trump-sabotage-seen-on-obamacare

[procon]

1. How petty of Trump, he can't legitimately enact any of his policies so he has to

resort to this kind of underhanded sabotage. He doesn't care that he's hurting real people, killing them, as a means of political revenge and his obsession with destroying Obama's work. There is blood on Trump's hands, he can't hide that.

[Lee-Lee]

2. That's always going to be the danger of giving these programs to the executive branch to run

There is way too much discretion in the law as to how they run things. When the wrong person is making those decisions everyone suffers.