In addition to halting outreach to Latino organizations to maximize Obamacare enrollments, the Trump administration has severed partnerships with just about every group the Obama administration worked with.
Both representatives of the former partner groups and former HHS officials say the relationships with gig economy companies, youth organizations, churches, women's groups, and African American and Latino civil rights non-profits were critical to keeping Obamacare's markets functioning, and their termination is a clear example of sabotage.
"The failure to invest in local assistance and these enrollment partnerships will reduce enrollment, increase costs and drive up the uninsured rate," warned Andy Slavitt, former head of HHS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama. "Hopefully they will reconsider taking these destructive actions."
Without the partners' help reaching out to young and healthy people who are less likely to sign up for health care, Slavitt explained, the government will find itself with a drastically smaller, older, sicker individual market with sky-high insurance rates.[…]
[…] Already this year, the administration has yanked PSAs about insurance deadlines, killed contracts for programs in 18 cities that helped people enroll, and redirected funds meant for the promotion of Obamacare toward the creation of ads against it—a decision now under GAO scrutiny. Both the president and HHS Secretary Tom Price frequently and publicly trash the law.
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, the law that the Trump administration is obligated to follow and to fulfill. Clearly, Trump is going to refuse to fulfill that obligation and "let Obamacare implode." Just as clear, the vast majority of voters are demanding that he make the law work, and will blame him and the Republicans for any and all of its failures.