{"id":134894,"date":"2017-10-02T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134894"},"modified":"2017-10-03T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T13:34:36","slug":"dont-think-theyre-trying-sabotage-aca-well-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/dont-think-theyre-trying-sabotage-aca-well-course.html","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re trying to sabotage the ACA, do you? Well, of course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced enrollment period, weekend outage windows, reduced assistance budget, reduced advertisement \/ reminders about enrollment &#8230; it&#8217;s almost as if they want ACA exchange usage to go <i>down,<\/i> especially among younger, healthier people, further driving up the price of insurance &#8230; which they can then blame on the ACA.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t fix it, break it!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/10\/02\/4-things-the-trump-administration-has-done-to-ensure-obamacare-enrollment-is-more-difficult-this-year\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Foq8aHjlwDsyj1udorwE6QfFoiPtN2I6uWmTQl5AlmWQf-20wNaLtIhgFjbiwhPihJRnZiBqPrv4ZwG10RTwojAjyMLEciorgstrPgBIg3phRPfJLlcRo8-xSn1z=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/10\/02\/4-things-the-trump-administration-has-done-to-ensure-obamacare-enrollment-is-more-difficult-this-year\/\">4 Things The Trump Administration Has Done To Ensure Obamacare Enrollment Is More Difficult This Year<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTom Price failed to get the Affordable Care Act repealed and replaced during his brief tenure as Health and Human Services Secretary, but the surgeon-turned-congressman did manage to do some real d\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SRHCWi8mpYp\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced enrollment period, weekend outage windows, reduced assistance budget, reduced advertisement \/ reminders about enrollment &#8230; it&#8217;s almost as if they want ACA exchange usage to go down, especially among younger, healthier people, further driving up the price of insurance &#8230; which they can then blame on the ACA. If you can&#8217;t fix it, break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/dont-think-theyre-trying-sabotage-aca-well-course.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re trying to sabotage the ACA, do you? Well, of course!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134,358,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ACA-healthcare-dot-gov.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134766,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/remember-used-jack-insurance-rates-got-sick.html","url_meta":{"origin":134894,"position":0},"title":"Remember when they used to jack up your insurance rates when you got sick?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Sep-17 4:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the Graham-Cassidy bill, the last ditch (for 2017) effort by the GOP in the Senate to Repeal-and-Replace the ACA with something that isn't so ... well ... likely to help people stay solvent and\/or alive. 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