The Trump administration cuts the financing of the OBAMACARE awareness program

The Trump administration has reduced the funding of the law of reasonable prices, which helps people participate in Obama’s coverage of the law, by 90 percent.

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) centers announced on Friday that the navigators will receive health insurance will receive $ 10 million annually over the next four years. The navigators received $ 98 million in 2024.

CMS said that the cuts will allow exchanges to focus on more effective strategies to improve results and reduce the premiums of people who are not qualified to obtain subsidies.

The health agency justified the reduction by noting that only the navigators recorded only 0.6 percent of the plan options on the Federal Stock Exchange during the open registration period – at a cost of $ 1061 per registration.

“In general, Navigator performance data shows that the current level of financing is not a reasonable return on investment. These numbers indicate that the navigators do not record enough people to justify the large amount of federal dollars spent pre -spent on the program,” CMS officials wrote in Advertising.

But experts referred to the federal data that showed that the navigators were more effective in registering people in the Medicaid program and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip) last year, as they may have more relationships with low -income communities. They helped record about 290,000 people in medicaid and chip.

The navigators are not private insurance brokers. It is paid through user fees, not through special plans, and does not recommend specific plans or policies for consumers. The decrease in financing will save a total of $ 360 million until August 26, 2029, according to CMS.

Likewise, the Trump administration reduced the ACA Navigator financing every year during its first term, in addition to reducing ads to Healthcare.gov by 90 percent. When the recordings fell, the administration said it was evidence that the law failed.

After that, the Biden administration regained granting the explorer, and said last year that it would spend nearly $ 500 million on this effort over five years.