The latest salvo in the Trump administration’s battle to sink the Affordable Care Act has been launched. The already shortened enrollment period has now been further curtailed by the announcement from the administration that the federal health insurance exchange website, healthcare.gov, will be shut down “for maintenance” for 12 hours during all but one Sunday in the upcoming open enrollment season.
Kaiser Health News reports that not only will the shutdowns occur from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET every Sunday except December 10, but the Department of Health and Human Services will also shut down healthcare.gov overnight on the first day of open enrollment, November 1. More than three dozen states, the report says, use that exchange for their marketplaces.
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