U.S judge strikes down Trump rule allowing 'skimpy' health insurance plans

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U.S judge strikes down Trump rule allowing ‘skimpy’ health insurance plans

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/03/29/u-s-judge-strikes-down-trump-rule-allowing-skimpy-health-insurance-plans.html/amp

By Deena Beasley at Politicus USA

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(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday stuck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy skimpy health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act requirements – part of administration efforts to chip away at the healthcare law.

Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found the rule “is clearly an end-run around the ACA,” commonly called Obamacare, the signature domestic achievement of former Democratic President Barack Obama.

The rule, put forward by the U.S. Department of Labor, would have allowed small businesses and those who are self-employed to band together and buy lower-cost health insurance policies, similar to large employers.

In the suit filed by 11 states and the District of Columbia, the judge found the department unreasonably expanded the definition of employers to include groups without any real commonality of interest as well as business owners without employees.

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1. The GOP really really wants all adequate healthcare to be available

only at a premium. Meds too. And financial advice. They seem to want nothing but anxiety for people who cannot afford expensiveness.

[Kurt V.]

2. it really does seem cruelty is the objective

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3. Anxiety is the objective. Anxiety makes employees more creative.

It makes people focus on an other when voting instead of their own economic self interest. For most republicans the cruelty is just an externality. They don't care. And they don't even try to make the world better.