90% cut from last year for advertising open-enrollment.
40% cut from last year for helping consumers determine best coverage and financial options (staff who do this are called “navigators”).
How this hastens ObamaCare’s demise:
Fewer young people will get coverage, raising rates.
Infirm and sick will miss the sign-up period and go without coverage.
Infirm and sick will pay more for coverage.
SOURCE:
Wall Street Journal, Sept 1 2017