"The insurance markets have stubbornly refused to fail." Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, quoted in Editorial, "Predictions of Obamacare's Demise Fail Again" (posted in the Boston Globe online on Sunday, August 27, 2017).
The current federal government decided not to spend money appropriated by Congress for advertising upcoming deadlines to sign up for Healthcare, and to remind people how to apply for coverage on the exchanges (and eligible for tax credits for their premium payments). Failing a change of federal government direction, "a consortium of insurers offering plans on the exchanges should come up with advertising of its own." "Further, TV and radio stations should offer public service announcements" or PSA's, it has been suggested, to remind people of the November 1 - December 15 enrollment period. See Editorial, "Predictions of Obamacare's Demise Fail Again" (posted in the Boston Globe online on Sunday, August 27, 2017).
There really shouldn't be secrecy about signing up for health insurance coverage. The need for healthcare will not go away just because some people ignore it.
It is too much to hope, perhaps, that the current federal government will do anything much to help those who need health insurance. If that proves to be the case, perhaps the private sector will.
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