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Inspector General Probes Trump Administration’s Move To Pull Obamacare Enrollment Ads

Mar 25, 2017 14:49

The Department of Health and Human Services inspector general has launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to pull ads encouraging people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act during the enrollment period. By shutting down such outreach, the action could be seen as a stealth way to starve the health plan without ( Read more... )

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sabrinita March 25 2017, 21:47:21 UTC

How can it be anything OTHER than sabotage? They're deliberately stopping the channels getting the word out to people who need to hear the message most :/

blackjedii March 26 2017, 00:55:47 UTC

Trump's washed his hands of it. He no longer GAF either way.

It's not malice - it's just not *~winning*~.

elialshadowpine March 26 2017, 22:32:20 UTC

I tend to agree here. (Icon directed at our Tantrum Tyrant.)

hudebnik March 26 2017, 12:13:34 UTC

What can this "investigation" accomplish? I don't think it's illegal for the Executive branch to suddenly decide not to spend money on ads (not that legality is ever a big concern for this administration ( ... )

moonshaz March 26 2017, 18:55:46 UTC

Ryan et al. didn't ask Democrats for input at all becauuse they weren't interested in improving Obamacare -- they wanted to get rid of it completely, and they knew the Dems were nhft.

The GOP wasn't even interested in replacing the ACA with something else until pretty recently iirc. For years now, the mantra has been "Repeal, repeal, repeal" period. Imo, they only tacked on the "replace" part when they realized that repeal alone was not going to be even a semi viable strategy.

Even then, they didn't work very hard to come up with a halfway decent replacement. Once the GOP had control of both houses of congress AND the Whie House, Ryan and his henchmen figured they could do whatever they wanted, and they didn't even try to come up with something non-shitty. They assumed all the other Repbs would get on board with whatever they shat out, because PARTY UBER ALLES! What they didn't bank on was dissent within their own ranks, but that's exactly what they got. The hardliners didn't think the propsed AHCA was shitty enough, while the ( ... )