How Trump is planning to gut Obamacare by executive order

[CousinIT]

Source: Vox.com

With a repeal bill off the table, the Trump administration has drafted an executive order that could blow a huge hole in the Affordable Care Act, according to a source with direct knowledge of the plan.

The order would, in effect, exempt many association health plans, groups of small businesses that pool together to buy health insurance, from core Obamacare requirements like the coverage of certain essential health benefits. It would potentially allow individuals to join these plans too, which would put individual insurance marketplaces in serious peril by drawing younger and healthier people away from them.

The draft order is also said to broaden the definition of short-term insurance, which is also exempt from the law’s regulations. Together, these changes represent a serious threat to Obamacare: President Trump seems ready to open more loopholes for more people to buy insurance outside the health care law’s markets, which experts anticipate would destabilize the market for customers who are left behind with higher premiums and fewer insurers.

“This appears to be a backdoor way of undermining the Affordable Care Act,” Kevin Lucia, who studies the markets at Georgetown University, said of the alleged changes.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/8/16439492/trump-obamacare-association-health-plans?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[procon]

1. Lie, cheat and steal, that's the only way Republicans know how to do anything. nt

[democratisphere]

3. So true. This ONE is going to backfire on them and very likely could

totally destroy the redumbliCON party.

[not fooled]

7. Only if enough 'Muricans know and understand what

the con-in-chief has done.

[No Vested Interest]

2. Who wll call them out on this atrocity? nt

[rtracey]

9. who?

US the voters, we start in 2018 by retaking the Senate. We make be able to make additions into the House. Maybe the Governor races. We need to UNITE this party, because if not now then we will Never get it done. No excuses this time, this is the absolute time and reason for this. The democrats need to preserve this country from the hordes of right wing zealots.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. How is what the Nazi-in-Chief is proposing constitutional?

[bitterross]

10. I want to know that answer too.

For a party that yelled "Overreach" and "Unconstitutional" every time Obama signed an order how is this proper and neither of those things?

I suspect the answer is that it is neither and the courts will have to decide.

But hey, IOKIYAR

[BigmanPigman]

5. I guess this means that his Sat AM tweet about working with Schumer to fix

the ACA was a lie. The Donald would never do that, would he?

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill. ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!
5:17 AM - Oct 7, 2017

[not fooled]

6. Is the corporate media

going to adequately inform the 'Murican public of this chicanery?

I doubt it.

Meanwhile, the activist groups will have to go to work again. Can they combat this latest vile act by the con-in-chief? What a disgusting excuse for a human. What a head case--obsessed with undoing Obama's legacy.

dump is a monster.

[Thekaspervote]

8. NY AG Eric Schneiderman said if dodart repealed the ACA that he would sue

Not sure if this is the same. Certainly will have the same results!