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The top Democrats on an array of House and Senate committee that deal with health care have fired off a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price demanding a briefing before the end of the month on what the lawmakers call the Trump administrations ongoing efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
The letter cites several news investigationsincluding TPMs report on HHS abandoning its partnerships with Latino, African American, youth, and womens groupsand asks the department to immediately explain what it is doing to uphold and promote the Affordable Care Act as the open enrollment period approaches.
Rather than encouraging enrollment in the Marketplaces, the Administration appears intent on depressing it, which we fear will contribute to destabilizing insurance markets and drive up costs for consumers, the lawmakers wrote, referencing the Trump administrations decisions to cut the length of the open enrollment period in half, cancel $22 million in contracts that funded programs at local libraries that assisted people in signing up for insurance, and redirect funds meant for promoting the ACA towards messaging against it.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/democrats-letter-hhs-obamacare-sabotage
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)refusing to fund is breaking the law.
Hold their feet to the fire.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)They are trying to kill us, i hope we all know that now.
I have been saying it for years