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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces
Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplacesBy 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 presidents move as wielding administrative powers to accomplish what congressional Republicans have failed to achieve: tearing down the laws insurance marketplaces. The order represents Trumps 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 laws marketplaces. Part of Trumps 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
msongs
(67,355 posts)1. spineless congrees allows trump to cancel congressional legislation. nt
DK504
(3,847 posts)5. Take Congress' healthcare away.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)2. The article points out that aspects of this are probably illegal...
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.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. This is a government attacking it's own people
eom
doc03
(35,295 posts)4. I thought it was the President's job to support and enforce the law.
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
create havoc and play with his choo-choo trains while wearing his Depends.
JCMach1
(27,553 posts)7. Legalizing SCAM insurance
shocking, no?
From a scam artist...