Chicago, IL – While Donald Trump sabotages the Affordable Care Act and Bruce Rauner refuses to speak out, JB Pritzker is running radio and digital ads across the state to promote healthcare.gov. Here’s what Illinoisans are seeing and reading in the news about JB’s efforts to promote Obamacare enrollment:

From WSIL:

From WBEZ:

From Politico:

Obamacare advocates have stressed the affordability of health plans for the roughly 80 percent of those in the market that qualify for federal subsidies. They’re also hoping to seize on enthusiasm generated by the ongoing campaign to defend Obamacare against the GOP’s repeal and replace plans — an effort that has pushed the law’s public approval rating to new highs and that navigators say is prompting an unprecedented level of volunteer interest in helping to drive sign-ups.

Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker’s campaign is spending $1 million to run radio and digital ads promoting open enrollment throughout the state. Get America Covered is also helming a six-figure nationwide digital campaign.

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Obamacare health insurance enrollment kicks off on Wednesday, and in the wake of President Donald Trump draining almost all funding to promote sign-ups, two Democrats and a Republican are stepping up to fill that void.

Democratic governor candidate JB Pritzker is paying about $1 million to run radio and digital ads to run all across Illinois.

Pritzker’s ads, paid for by his gubernatorial campaign, start on Wednesday and will run through the enrollment period, which ends Dec. 15. The site to enroll is www.healthcare.gov.

Pritzker, locked in a Democratic primary, is making the ad buy as Democrats at the local and national levels are trying to fill in the gaps caused by Trump’s attempts to dismantle former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Health Care Act. […]

Billionaire Pritzker is self-funding his campaign and spokeswoman Galia Slayen said the $1 million for the ads will come out of Pritzker’s campaign fund. Slayen said it is likely that Pritzker is the only candidate paying for ads to promote Obamacare enrollment.

Health care insurance is an issue that is likely to animate the Democrat base vote and potentially attract cross-over voters, a political reason GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner, who has been mostly silent about Trump’s attempts to end Obamacare, has decided to use state resources to let people know about enrollment options that start on Wednesday. Department of Insurance Director Jennifer Hammer is holding a news conference in Chicago Wednesday to discuss enrollment efforts for the state marketplace site, Get Covered Illinois.

In one spot, Pritzker says,”There are hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans currently benefiting from Obamacare, but one of Donald Trump’s strategies to kill the program is to make it harder to sign up. This year, he’s cut the period to enroll in Obamacare by half and cut advertising to tell people about it by 90 percent. We can’t let Donald Trump win.

“If you’re interested in signing up, the enrollment period is from November 1 to December 15. For more information, go to http://www.healthcare.gov. That’s www.healthcare.gov. Again, this is JB Pritzker. The truth is, there’s a lot that can be done in Illinois to fight against what’s going on in Washington, but Bruce Rauner’s doing nothing. As your governor, I’ll stand up to Donald Trump and always fight for Illinois.”

From WSIL:

Most Americans did not hear as much about open enrollment this year, because the Trump administration cut the open enrollment advertisement budget by 90 percent, citing declining enrollment figures.

Democrats like J.B. Pritzker, who is running for governor of Illinois, called the cut a deliberate attempt to sabotage Obamacare.

“One of the ways Trump is trying to kill Obamacare is by eliminating advertising telling people how to sign up,” Pritzker said in a new campaign video.