For those who are unemployed, under-employed, self-employed, or otherwise don't receive health insurance from an employer, one of the few means of procuring health insurance is through the State Health Benefit Exchange, made possible by Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act. Currently, about 180,000 Washingtonians get their insurance though the exchange. But if Donald Trump and his Obama-hating cronies get their way, this number will drop. Bigly.

Since the GOP has repeatedly failed to repeal Obamacare, Trump has been trying to kneecap the ACA in other ways. Earlier this month, he signed an executive order directing three federal agencies to design alternate means of dismantling the program, "including a path for small businesses to join together and buy association health plans, ways for consumers to buy short-term policies without protections for pre-existing conditions, and allowing employers to reimburse employees in buying their own healthcare," as Sydney Brownstone reports.

But that's not all: Back in the good old days, when we had a President who didn't get his daily briefings from TrumpIsDaddy.com, the open enrollment period for healthcare was three months. This year, it will be open for just six weeks, from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15th.

Not only is the period in which you can buy health insurance halved, the Trump administration cut funding to advertise the exchanges by 90 percent and cut funding for ACA enrollment assistance by 40 percent. And he decimated federal healthcare subsidies for low-income people. All of this instability in the health insurance market has decreased the number of insurances companies willing to sell on the exchange and has lead to increases in the cost of insurance. In Washington, consumers can expect an average premium increase of 36.4 percent—which sucks, but sucks way less than going bankrupt because of an unexpected health crisis.

Nov. 1 - Dec. 15 is the time to buy. Do not let this window come and go.