It was criminal enough that Tom Price, Trump’s HHS Secretary, has already used taxpayer money to charter private jets to places like Aspen 24 times. But this isn’t just criminal--it's downright sabotage:
Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News has tweeted that Department of Health and Human Services is planning to close the site from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. on most of the upcoming Sundays during open enrollment, which is only supposed to last a brief 45 days this year, thanks to a rule the administration released in April.
So not only did Tom Price and the Trump Administration:
But they are now shutting healthcare.gov down during the time frame when most working people would use it.
The Trump Administration responded to the backlash by saying this is all necessary “planned maintenance" (Believe me). However, the former chief maintenance officer for HHS, Frank Baitman, calls BS:
Sarah Kliff is Vox’s healthcare policy correspondent. She has talked to several former HHS officials who agree this is abnormal and say there was “way less" maintenance last year. Perhaps not surprisingly, this appears to be a deliberate attempt just to hurt people.
But then again, what part of the Trump administration isn’t?