The day after moderator Lester Holt declined to ask a single question about Obamacare in the first 2016 presidential debate, the current administration launched a new effort designed to save the fledgling health care law — and lawmakers in Congress are rushing to protect Americans from becoming collateral damage in its collapse.

16 of 23 nonprofit co-ups set up under Obamacare to subsidize health care coverage have collapsed nationwide, leaving thousands who signed up for health care under the law without coverage.

“The law is deteriorating daily; its numerous design flaws are jacking up costs and killing choice and competition.”

Congress moved to protect those who lost coverage because of the co-op implosions Tuesday. The House passed the CO-OP Consumer Protection Act of 2016 to protect those who had lost coverage from being hit with the Obamacare-mandated penalty for not having health insurance.

That same day, the Obama administration was frantic in its attempt to make signing up for health care hip among young people — the only demographic who could reverse the law’s death spiral.

In partnership with the online gaming platform Twitch, the Obama administration is seeking to reach people “where they’re most likely to be” and “pull out all the stops” to boost enrollment among young adults, said Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the Washington Examiner.

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The administration also intends to roll out a new social media campaign marked by the hashtag #HealthyAdulting in a bid to make Obamacare more hip. March of Dimes and liberal activist organizations Planned Parenthood and the National Council of La Raza have also signed up to promote Obamacare among their online subscribers. According to Burwell, the administration plans to roll out this new outreach beginning Nov. 1.

The massive new push from the administration comes on the heels of more bad news than just the co-op collapses.

A wave of major insurers are pulling out of state health care marketplaces.

UnitedHealth Group has announced an exit from 31 of 34 exchanges it previously offered coverage in and Aetna will leave 11 of the 15 exchanges where it had a presence.

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Just last week, Blue Cross Blue Shield announced it would exit the Nebraska exchange next year after suffering a nearly $140 million loss in the Midwestern state since 2014. Only two insurers will remain with Obamacare in Nebraska next year.

At the same time, prices for consumers have actually increased.

Steep increases to health insurance premiums have hit many states.

In fact, premiums rose by roughly 16 percent on average this year as compared to last year, according to estimates from Ed Haislmaier, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. In North Carolina, Blue Cross Blue Shield said it intends to raise its rates by an average of 18.8 percent and Aetna plans to raise its rates by an average of 24.5 percent. In Ohio, the average requested increase rose nearly 10 percent, whereas companies in Pennsylvania requested increases that averaged 23.6 percent.

Analysis from The Heritage Foundation found that the average premium for a family of four in Wisconsin increased by 27 percent in 2015. The average 27-year-old’s cost more than doubled, while the average 50-year-old’s rose by a whopping 68 percent. In Florida, premiums increased by 81 percent for 50-year-olds, 88 percent for 27-year-olds, and 25 percent for family units.

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Dr. Robert E. Moffit, a Senior Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies, says fixing the escalating problems with the health care law will have to be the top priority of the next administration and leaders in Congress.

“Regardless of November’s victor, the law will be reopened in 2017. The reason: the law is deteriorating daily; its numerous design flaws are jacking up costs and killing choice and competition,” Moffit told LifeZette in a statement. “Fixing this mess will be the top job for Congress, not the White House; that’s where the hard, detailed work of competently crafting alternative provisions will have to be done.”

The Obamacare collapse may indeed be the biggest issue facing an incoming administration — but that still wasn’t enough for moderator Lester Holt to bring it up in the 90 minutes of Monday’s debate.

Holt’s overt bias in favor of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton could explain why the law’s structural problems did not come up.

“After more than six years, Obamacare remains unpopular, and that will not change between now and November,” Moffit said. “Ms. Clinton stands by the unpopular law, and promises the ‘fix’ of a new government health plan to increase competition.”