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Huffington PostSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged President Donald Trump to release payments that the federal government owes insurers as part of the Affordable Care Act, firing a salvo in the latest stage of the health care reform fight.
Schumers reaction came after Trump launched a Saturday afternoon tweet threatening to end BAILOUTS to insurance companies if Congress does not repeal and replace Obamacare.
Although Trump did not specify exactly what he meant, Schumer interpreted it as an indication that Trump plans to withhold subsidies to insurers for plans on the Obamacare individual insurance marketplaces that provide lower out-of-pocket costs for people with incomes under 250 percent of the poverty line. Delivering on the threat, which Trump has issued more explicitly in the past, would, on average, prompt insurers to increase premiums for typical plans by 19 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, and likely plunge the marketplaces into chaos.
If the President refuses to make the cost sharing reduction payments, every expert agrees that premiums will go up and health care will be more expensive for millions of Americans, Schumer said in a statement. The president ought to stop playing politics with peoples lives and health care, start leading and finally begin acting Presidential.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I fear it will not have the desired effect.
msongs
(67,420 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)of the United States. He can't pick and choose which laws he's going to execute. Although, I do get the feeling that he won't enforce the Russian Sanctions that he was forced to sign.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)He's murdering the rule of law!
By trying to make himself dicator, he's begging to be impeached and to be the first "pResident" to be removed from office!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)We HAVE TO get rid of this ass NOW! We can't wait until possibly 2018 or when/if Mueller is allowed to finish his investigation.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)You don't know that Dump doesn't care about premiums going up and many people losing health insurance as a result. This is his stated goal. As he said in his speech urging police brutality:
You know, I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode and then do it. And I turned out to be right. Let ObamaCare implode,
As he said, he's said something very similar in the past. He's licking his chops in anticipation of millions of people losing health care because they can't pay for it. He always has to be "right."
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Since it's month by month they might .. meaning see yr dr now
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)I'd say that's being pretty immediate. Of course Twitler is famous for his patience and discretion. And we all know how much he truly loves the American people - especially when they're captive audiences like the Boy Scouts or women whose pussies he wants to grab or disabled reporters or ... never mind.
I KNEW we weren't out of the woods yet. I am disabled and on medicaid and I've been living with anxiety levels that are over the top every since I heard the election night results.
Fuckers - sorry for my language but I guess it's all the vogue these days, anyway.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)territory approval numbers...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Hey Capin....Whats a Premium reduction payment?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who didn't see that coming?
bucolic_frolic
(43,192 posts)you or I or your average company wouldn't get away with it
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)Try an 83% increase, in my case.
If Trump decides to fuck everyone and withhold the subsidy, my insurance goes from $367.99 a month, to $673.99 a month.
Suddenly, I'll have to figure out which two out of three I can pay in a given month - rent, health insurance, or food.
Trump must have stock in cat food companies, because he's about to force a bunch of us to start eating it to survive.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Is there not some recourse?