Your Opinion: Trump sabotaging what's left of ACA

Dear Editor:

Most people want to see the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) work. Trump doesn't. He's mad because "repeal and replace" failed in both the House and the Senate, and he's acting out his anger by sabotaging what's left, Obamacare.

Seventy-one percent of Americans want the Trump Administration to "do what they can to make the current health care law work" (Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted Oct. 5-10). People don't want Obamacare sabotaged; they want it made workable, yet here is what the Trump Administration is doing:

Planning to cut funding to groups that help people enroll.

Shutting down the ACA website for 12 hours on most Sundays during open enrollment.

Removing helpful advice for consumers from the website.

Reducing tax credits for premiums, i.e., raising the cost of insurance.

No longer sending health department officials to local open enrollment events.

Trump wants to reduce enrollment, raise prices and hope that Obamacare fails and goes away. Why? Mainly for petty, spiteful reasons. He wants to see anything connected with Obama fail, wrongly thinking that if Obama goes down he goes up, and Trump lives for adulation. Also, he's mad at the Congress for not passing the extremist Republican bills for repeal and replace, so he's going to teach Congress a lesson. A responsible adult would work with the Congress, including the Democrats, and get a moderate, compromise bill enacted, one that makes the present system workable.

But Trump is not a responsible adult.