The HHS and other agencies involved in administering the Affordable Care Act — still the law of the land — are being increasingly hostile and non-communicative to journalists when asked for questions or clarifications of anything beyond formal press releases. Even statements and data given out are sometimes being retracted — and the retractions themselves are “not authorized” for quotation.
The question becomes, what does the media actually do about it. Or, for that matter, what do the voters do about it?
Under Trump, health reporters confront an information blockadeWashington Post healthcare reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham recently raised a few serious questions about how the Trump administration planned to manage Obamacare’s fall enrollment season. “The six-week sign-up period will be the first handled exclusively by an administration that’s hostile to the Affordable Care Act,” Cunningham wrote, “and one that hoped by now to see […]
