Trump Cuts to Obamacare Enrollment Groups Deeper Than Expected
- Insurance ‘navigators’ say planned cuts are arbitrary
- ‘They’re tying our hands behind our back,’ one group says
Trump: Health Plan Will Solve Obamacare 'Nightmare'
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The Trump administration is cutting tens of millions of dollars from organizations that help Americans enroll in Obamacare health plans, leaving some of the groups scrambling to shrink their operations weeks before enrollment for 2018 coverage opens on Nov. 1.
The organizations, called navigators, say the funding cuts have been arbitrary, opaque and don’t follow the Trump administration’s stated method for calculating the reductions. The groups had been counting on money for the final year of a three-year grant program, and most didn’t learn how deep the cuts would be until after last year’s funding expired on Sept. 1.