This is what sabotage looks like.

First, Republicans shortened the enrollment period. Then they cut funding for advertising and cut Latino outreach for enrollment. And then they scheduled shutdowns of healthcare.gov for every Sunday during the enrollment period but one.

What's next? The Department of Health and Human Services is not holding a single marketplace event in Mississippi this year. From Vox:  

“For the past three years, the US Health and Human Services Department has partnered with a health advocacy group in Mississippi on an education tour before Obamacare enrollment started. They would meet around the states with groups that sign people up for coverage — state officials, health centers, insurance brokers, and the like — to prepare for open enrollment.”

“Up until Monday, Roy Mitchell, executive director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, thought these events were going forward in the coming weeks as planned. He had even asked HHS just last week for biographies of the officials they’d be sending.”

“But then two days ago, he received a short message from an agency official, which Mitchell shared with Vox: HHS wouldn’t be doing any Obamacare marketplace events in the South this year. No further explanation was provided.”

“‘HHS bailing out was the last straw for us,’ Mitchell told me by phone Wednesday. ‘It’s clearly sabotage.’”

“But they will not be the same without HHS, which had been a willing partner during the Obama administration, Mitchell said. The agency’s presence helped convince navigators and insurance agents to show up, and federal officials would have the best information available on Obamacare open enrollment.”

“It is part of a pattern, on official and unofficial fronts, of the Trump administration undercutting Obamacare, the federal law that despite repeated attempts to repeal it remains on the books and helps millions of Americans get health insurance.”