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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:17 PM Oct 2017

Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces

Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces
By Amy Goldstein October 12 at 12:32 PM

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to circumvent the Affordable Care Act by making it easier for individuals and small business to buy different types of health plans with lower prices but also fewer benefits and protections.

The White House and allies portray the president’s move as wielding administrative powers to accomplish what congressional Republicans have failed to achieve: tearing down the law’s insurance marketplaces. The order represents Trump’s biggest step to carry out a broad but ill-defined directive he issued his first night in office for agencies to lessen ACA regulations from the Obama administration.

Critics, who include state insurance commissioners, most of the health-insurance industry and mainstream policy specialists, predict that a proliferation of other types of coverage would have damaging ripple effects: driving up costs for consumers with serious medical conditions and prompting more insurers to flee the law’s marketplaces. Part of Trump’s action, they say, will spark court challenges over its legality.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-to-sign-executive-order-to-gut-aca-insurance-rules-and-undermine-marketplaces/2017/10/11/40abf774-ae97-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
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Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2017 OP
spineless congrees allows trump to cancel congressional legislation. nt msongs Oct 2017 #1
Take Congress' healthcare away. DK504 Oct 2017 #5
The article points out that aspects of this are probably illegal... Rollo Oct 2017 #2
This is a government attacking it's own people workinclasszero Oct 2017 #3
I thought it was the President's job to support and enforce the law. doc03 Oct 2017 #4
He doesn't give a shit about the law. He only wants to be in the Oval Office DK504 Oct 2017 #6
Legalizing SCAM insurance JCMach1 Oct 2017 #7

Rollo

(2,559 posts)
2. The article points out that aspects of this are probably illegal...
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:26 PM
Oct 2017

Since they depend on modifying ERISA rules, but ERISA applies only to employer administered health plans, not to individual or association administered health plans.

I think.

In any case, this is a matter of a fake president trying to force fake health insurance down our throats.

doc03

(35,295 posts)
4. I thought it was the President's job to support and enforce the law.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:34 PM
Oct 2017

How can he make executive orders to destroy the law.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
6. He doesn't give a shit about the law. He only wants to be in the Oval Office
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:40 PM
Oct 2017

create havoc and play with his choo-choo trains while wearing his Depends.

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