Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act
insurance exchange on Healthcare.gov begins November 1. But Donald
Trump is trying to stop the public from hearing about it.
Trump's Department of Health and Human Services
just cut Healthcare.gov advertising by 90% and funding for consumer assistance
by nearly 50%, meaning the essential outreach work needed to enroll the people
necessary for keeping the health care exchange thriving is in jeopardy.1
These public education campaigns are incredibly
important to make sure people know how to get health care, so UltraViolet
Action is stepping in to help fill the gap with our own advertising
campaign. You can chip in $5?
Outreach and advertising for the health care
exchange are more important than ever this year. The enrollment period this
year was cut sharply from what it was last year--ending on December 15 instead
of January 31. And after Congress spent the first half of the year trying to
kill Obamacare, many people have no idea where the law stands now.2
Even people who do know that the ACA is still in
place might not know that the law applies to them. Even when the law had been established for
years, only about a third of the population knew whether Medicaid was expanded
in their state or that pre-existing conditions no longer exclude them from
coverage, and more than 60% of adults didn't know the income level that would
qualify them for insurance subsidies.3
Most important, we know that there is a direct
connection between the number of advertisements published about Healthcare.gov
and the number of people who sign up.4 And so does Trump--he
knows that the less the Affordable Care Act is advertised, the fewer people will
join, and the more likely it is to "implode" as he predicted.
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