Trump Killing ACA Subsidies for Low Income Americans

By NCD on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 1:15am |

“The government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments,” the White House said in a statement. It concluded that “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.”... Without the subsidies, insurance markets could quickly unravel... Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, praised Mr. Trump’s decision...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/politics/trump-obamacare-executive-order-health-insurance.html

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retweeted by Ezra Klein:

Ah, the classic 'wreak chaos in the health care market in the months leading up to midterm elections that traditionally break against the party in the White House anyway even when the country doesn't especially loathe the President' maneuver, another political masterstroke.
— Squarely Rooted (@squarelyrooted) October 13, 2017

followed by this:

This thread, from earlier today, goes double for Trump's decision to cancel CSR subsidies. https://t.co/sT5HryHvCh
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 13, 2017

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 1:51am

The subsidies for a family of 4, note a family with an income of $35,000 can get a silver plan for about $100 a month, subsidy of $6,917.:

by NCD on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 9:38am

Republicans applaud shucking the middle class yesterday at the signing, note Mr. Boot Straps Freedumb from the Government spending on your Health Care Rand Paul, from Kentucky....where half the population is on CHIP, Medicare, Medicare, disability or ACA, voting for him makes them feel like part of the GOP club, rich white country club denizens.

by NCD on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 9:48am

It is amazing that people support this crap.

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 10:09am

PEOPLE NEED TO PRESSURE THEIR CONGRESSPERSONS RIGHT NOW. Yes, I meant to yell. Though minions may not end up following all his orders, that doesn't even matter, by throwing a huge amount of uncertainty out there, Trump is truly fucking up the whole health care system, beyond even screwing up health insurance.

This is not just about low income subsidies, in the end screwing with the system so much, this is about how all the providers are going to be paid for their work! It's bomb throwing, that's what he's doing, a temper tantrum with people's health care. It is very serious. I heard from a doctor today in a visit, we talked for 15 mins., I heard second hand from an insurance broker yesterday. It is very serious, the whole health care industry is freaking out.

This lede to the current NYTimes headline article on what he's been doing says it all:

A backlash against President Trump — including from fellow Republicans — was brewing as lawmakers voiced concern over how ending the subsidies would affect their constituents.

The constituents got to speak up! They truly don't know what to do now.

My suggestion is to say you want your representatives to support the Lamar Alexander/Patty Murray Obamacare fix and to instruct the president that it is his duty to execute it or else.

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/13/2017 - 4:52pm

“It’s going to hurt everybody”: Nevada’s GOP governor rips Trump over ACA sabotage

Updated by Jeff Stein @ Vox.com, Oct 13

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 12:50am

18 states sue over Trump-halted ObamaCare payments

By Rachel Roubein @ TheHill.com, 10h ago

A new multi-state lawsuit has been announced to stop President Trump from halting key ObamaCare payments to insurers.

Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., signed onto the lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in California, according to Sarah Lovenheim, a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D).[....]

The complaint will seek a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and permanent injunction requiring the cost-sharing reduction payments be made [...]

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 1:21am

Epic legal battles shaping up over Trump's scrapping of Obamacare subsidies

By Paul Demko & Rachana Pradhan @ Politico.com, Updated 10/13/2017 05:17 PM EDT

My underlining, wish it would go viral so he sees it:

President Donald Trump's move to cut off critical Obamacare subsidies will almost surely be tied up in the courts for years as Democratic-led states seek injunctions, while insurers seek to recover payments they say they’re owed.

It's impossible to predict whether a judge might order the administration to continue the payments while the lawsuits are heard, but at least some legal experts express doubts.

“Forcing an administration to continue making payments when the president believes there is no appropriation, and when Congress believes there’s no appropriation, would be a pretty extreme move by the court — even if it was a temporary measure," said Nicholas Bagley, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School who has written extensively about Obamacare legal issues.

The result is that [....]

Mike Consedine, CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, fears insurers may still flee the 2018 markets [....]

“The market can only take so many shocks,” said Ceci Connolly, CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans. “We had hoped that a business person would have understood the implications to the market, but that seems not to be the case.” [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 1:45am

On the politics of this, I agree with Dent:

Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) argued Friday that President Trump was “ill-advised” to end key ObamaCare payments, warning that the GOP now “owns” whatever happens to ObamaCare.

“I think the president is ill-advised to take this course of action because … we, the Republican Party, will own this,” Dent, a key House moderate who is retiring from Congress at the end of his term, said on CNN [....]

It's just damn stupid at this late date, like most things he's done

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 1:31am

Agree 100%:

This is bad policy. It is bad politics. It will hurt the most vulnerable people in our country. It is governance driven purely by spite. https://t.co/BdEBM5knTp
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 13, 2017

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 12:28pm

This too on the general approach, that he often doesn't even intend to do what he does:

It is one of the darker comedies of this administration that Trump keeps getting angry when he hears what the policies he supports will actually do. https://t.co/3T0nNzsZB5
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 12, 2017

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 12:31pm

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