Trump Issues First Veto Threat of His Presidency -- Against Affordable Health Care & Dem...

Trump Issues First Veto Threat of His Presidency — Against Affordable Health Care and Democratic Senator Running for Re-Election

By MATTHEW CHAPMAN – ALTERNETOCTOBER 10, 2018 12:12 PM

Trump Threatens to Veto a Resolution by Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin – Who's Running for Re-Election

On Tuesday, for the first time ever, President Donald Trump's White House issued a threat to veto a piece of legislation pending in Congress — and their choice was revealing.

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Senate Joint Resolution 63, authored by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), is a resolution that would repeal the Trump administration's new regulation on unregulated "short-term" health insurance plans. The regulation essentially eliminates the "short-term" aspect of these plans, allowing people to enroll in them year-round for up to three years, despite the fact that these plans do not have to cover essential benefits or protect pre-existing conditions.

In effect, Trump is creating an entirely separate health insurance market of "junk plans" unrelated by the Affordable Care Act, and encouraging healthy people to enroll in those instead, driving up premiums an estimated 1 percentfor people who want proper coverage. For this reason, health experts broadly oppose Trump's regulation, and 16 medical trade groups and patient associations have endorsed Baldwin's resolution.

In addition to Baldwin's resolution, Trump's regulation is also the focus of a lawsuit by 7 health care advocacy and mental health groups, which alleges that "the creation of a parallel individual insurance market consisting of plans that are not subject to the ACA's consumer protection standards" is a violation of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act.

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