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Trump goes to war against his own countrys health care system
Trump goes to war against his own country’s health care system
10/13/17 08:00 AM—Updated 10/13/17 08:13 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump’s executive order yesterday on health care policy threatens to do real harm to the individual marketplace, pushing costs higher on those who need care most. Last night, however, the second shoe dropped, and it’s vastly worse.
The White House announced late Thursday that it would no longer reimburse insurers for lowering costs for customers under the Affordable Care Act, a decision Democrats condemned as “spiteful.”
President Donald Trump had indicated he was considering cutting off the payments in order to increase pressure on lawmakers to repeal the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
President Donald Trump had indicated he was considering cutting off the payments in order to increase pressure on lawmakers to repeal the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
Note, for months, people involved in the health care debate have played a game of “will he or won’t he?” when it comes to the president and cost-sharing-reduction payments (CSRs). That question is no longer speculative: Trump is actually stopping the payments.
Indeed, he said as much this morning on Twitter: “The Democrats [sic] ObamaCare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!”
In other words, the president, who is effectively going to war against his own country’s health care system, is moving forward with a plan that’s likely to hurt many Americans in order to gain some kind of political leverage.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-goes-war-against-his-own-countrys-health-care-system?cid=sm_fb_maddow
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