Trump cancels already-paid-for Obamacare enrollment-ads to save money...

[DetlefK]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-enrollment_us_588a9451e4b0230ce61b0b40?vetgfi0iwyul92j4i&

Politico’s Paul Demko reported on Thursday evening that the Department of Health and Human Services has halted all outreach efforts, including television advertising and direct email designed to encourage people to enroll in Obamacare plans.

The Obama administration had already paid for the advertising. An HHS spokesperson told Demko that the Trump administration had decided to cancel the final installment, worth about $5 million, in order “to look for efficiencies where they exist.”

[malaise]

1. Not to save money

to stop promoting Obamacare because people love it and continue to sign up.

[MaeScott]

2. He must have seen the polls....

The ones where the ACA polls higher than his underwater approval numbers.

[lamp_shade]

3. DKOS member made a suggestion....

MarvinMartian v2aggie2 Jan 27 · 05:02:33 AM
Well, since Trump can neither refuse to pay (they’ve been paid for), refuse to provide commercial content (they’ve been made already), or go to every media outlet and confiscate the commercial tapes (yeah, I know, they’re all digital files now), I’d say that he may have SAID they’re ‘pulled’, but the entities with them might just decide to run them anyway. Which means, this is even more of an ideologically driven boneheaded move than it looks like on the surface.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/27/1625837/-PLEASE-REC-SHARE-Trump-just-killed-final-week-ACA-ads-SIGN-UP-BY-1-31-TO-LOCK-IN-COVERAGE-FOR-2017

[underpants]

4. I've seen the ads and they are very well done

There are only 4 days left for registration so this is just a nasty vindictive asshole move.

[MistakenLamb]

5. sounds like a violation of Train vs City of New York

that money must be used for ACA advertisement