The Trump administration is now allowing some ads and outreach to continue through the final days of 2017 enrollment for Affordable Care Act health coverage. [White House stops ads, outreach for last days of 2017 ACA enrollment]A department spokesman on Friday characterized both moves as part of the new administration’s opposition to the ACA and its determination to save money. “We aren’t going to continue spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars promoting a failed government program,” he said in a statement. Word of the initial cutoff of all outreach activities triggered a sharp outcry from several former HHS leaders from the Obama administration, as well as other ACA supporters. “They must reinstate all outreach,” Leslie Dach, director of a fledgling pro-ACA campaign called Protect Our Care, said in a statement.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 02:18 UTC