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Trump admin cuts funding to program that helps people sign up for healthcare

President Donald Trump listens as Brett Kavanaugh, his nominee to be the next Supreme Court Justice, speaks at the White House on Monday. On Tuesday, his administration announced cuts to programs that help people sign up for healthcare. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

By Ray Downs, UPI

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will cut funding to nonprofits known as "navigators" that help people sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

[post_ads]The federal government will now provide $10 million to the initiative. Since taking office in January 2017, Trump has reduced funding by 80 percent, The New York Times reported. In President Barack Obama's last year in office, the federal government spent $63 million to help people sign up for healthcare through the ACA.

In addition, Trump has slashed the ACA's advertising budget by 90 percent.

These moves have been criticized as Trump's attempt to dismantle the ACA, one of Obama's largest legislative achievements. And critics say it only serves to worsen healthcare in the United States.

"Given the continued attacks on healthcare, including federal rules allowing the resurgence of low-cost, junk health insurance plans, such as 'association health plans' and 'short-term plans', consumers looking for good, comprehensive coverage could be easily confused," Frederick Isasi, executive director of Families USA, a Democrat-leaning healthcare advocacy organization, told CNN. "This is a time when consumers need more help to understand the insurance options that are available to them -- not less."

But Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the funding cut is meant to change an ineffective program. Navigators, the Trump administration has said, only sign up about 1 percent of the people who enroll in ACA-approved programs each of the past two years. And during the last year of the Obama administration, seventeen navigators enrolled fewer than 100 people at an average cost of $5,000 per enrollee.
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"It's time for the Navigator program to evolve, which is why we are announcing a new direction for the program today," Verma said in a statement. "This decision reflects CMS' commitment to put federal dollars for the Federally-facilitated Exchanges to their most cost effective use in order to better support consumers through the enrollment process."

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the move will hurt consumers.

"This move amounts to federally-funded fraud -- paying groups to sell unsuspecting Americans on junk plans," Wyden said.

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