Sabotaging the ACA

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Keep Americans safe! How? By sabotaging their healthcare insurance..

Peter Lee is the executive director of Covered California, the state's Obamacare insurance exchange and the second-largest exchange by enrollees in the country. Lee said the Trump administration has taken major steps to undermine the Affordable Care Act in 2017 and that will cause problems in 2018. He said the problems are "now on President Trump."

"So I think there is a truth to it — Obamacare is gone," Lee said. "The reality is what is going to come home to roost for this president and this Congress is a collapsed individual market that was working well." Lee said research from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Standard and Poor's pointed to increased insurer profitability and strong enrollment numbers. Now, that appears to be up in the air heading into the 2018 open-enrollment period. "If you look at all of this research, 2017 was going to be the big turnaround year and now 2018 is going to be a s---storm," Lee said. "It is going to be a nightmare for much of country with some islands of calm, relatively speaking."

Already, a study by healthcare consulting firm Avalere Health projected that premiums for the lowest cost silver-level plans on the Obamacare exchanges would increase by 34% in 2018. Benchmark silver plans, which are the second most expensive, went up by only 26% in 2017. Avalere said the increase was, in part, due to Trump's elimination of so-called cost-sharing reduction payments and "general volatility around the policies governing the exchanges."

Obamacare open enrollment: Covered California director says Trump caused storm - Business Insider

Eliminate the subsidies, slash the outreach budget by 80%, cut the enrollment period in half and other measures are wrecking what was actually stabilizing..

This nothing more and nothing less than an assault on people's healthcare, out of spite. Many of the victims are Trump supporters.