New York City’s $8 Million Plan to Save Obamacare: Sign Up As Many People As Possible

Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed his plan today to prevent President-elect Donald Trump and rest of Republican-occupied Washington from scrapping President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act: deploying $8 million in city resources to enroll tens of thousands of New Yorkers through the program by the end of next month. The liberal Democratic mayor convened members of his own health team along with several interested groups at Gouverneur Health public hospital on the Lower East Side to announce his new #GetCoveredNYC initiative, a program explicitly aimed at getting so many people insured through Obamacare that Republicans become wary of trying to repeal it.