Scott Flanders, the chief executive officer of eHealth Inc., said today that he thinks the Trump administration wants to shut down HealthCare.gov.

Former President Barack Obama's U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up HealthCare.gov to provide Affordable Care Act exchange administration services for states that are unwilling or unable to handle ACA exchange enrollment services themselves.

"I've heard from two senior officials in the administration that it is their ambition to shut down HealthCare.gov," Flanders told securities analysts today during conference call.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.