Ever wonder what was behind the Trump administration’s decision to pull back advertising promotion of HealthCare.gov in the waning days of open enrollment? How about what U.S. Department of Health & Human Services officials were really saying about the Affordable Care Act during those frantic days leading to the failed repeal and replace efforts earlier this year?
If so, a handful of Washington, D.C., lawyers may soon have those answers. A nonprofit group of five former government attorneys — most of whom also have Big Law experience — that launched last month will use the federal Freedom of Information Act to unearth emails and other documents that would, as the organization’s leader put it, “line up what [HHS and other regulators] are saying privately with what they are saying publicly.”
