'Clearly an end-run': Federal judge rejects Trump's health care plan to go around Obamacare

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A federal judge in Washington ruled late Thursday that the Trump administration’s push to make health insurance plans available outside the Affordable Care Act that avoid the requirements of the health care law was illegal, calling the efforts “clearly an end-run around the ACA.”

The 43-page ruling, submitted by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates of the District of Columbia, blocks new rules from the Trump administration overseeing “association health plans,” which would allow small businesses to combine their forces to offer plans outside the ACA that would be both less expensive and provide fewer health protections.

“The final rule is clearly an end-run around the ACA,” Bates, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote in the Thursday ruling. “Indeed, as the president directed, and the secretary of labor confirmed, the final rule was designed to expand access to AHPs to avoid the most stringent requirements of the ACA.”

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/29/clearly-an-end-run-federal-judge-strikes-down-trump-administrations-health-plan-go-around-obamacare/?utm_term=.00af2f80348f|

The trumspters won't take this lying down - but this is a good start, right?

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1. SCREEEEEEEEEEECH ACTIVIST JUDGE!!!!!! n/t

[ScratchCat]

2. Judge:

"When the President says a proposal is a way to get around an existing law, that's how we will interpret it".

Trump, making judges jobs easier every day!