Good riddance to a wasteful Obamacare promotion budget

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Democrats have long been casting about for excuses for Obamacare’s continuing slide toward failure. They have tried very hard to blame it on President Trump, even though the program’s massive problems were evident when Trump was just a longshot primary candidate and President Barack Obama was calling all the shots.

Today, as the program continues to ruin the private insurance market, Democrats are trying to establish an excuse-in-advance for its complete failure. They are crying “sabotage” because the Trump administration is rightly moving to slash the advertising and promotional budget for Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. The complaint has no basis in reality.

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