The myth of Obamacare ‘sabotage’

Published December 6, 2018 6:22pm ET



The Affordable Care Act is on its last legs. At least, that’s the sense you get from reading this week’s headlines. NPR reports “Obamacare Sign-Ups Lag as Trump Slashes Funds for Enrollment Help,” while Politico solemnly concedes that “Trump may finally be undermining Obamacare.”

With two weeks left of this year’s open enrollment, it might seem that the Trump administration, through a combination of budget cuts and regulatory attacks, has dealt a final blow to the ACA, leaving millions of people uninsured, or at least unaware of their options.

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