Updates | The Week of April 10, 2017
Ian Eppler // 4/16/17 //
President Trump’s waffling on cost-sharing reductions for the Affordable Care Act is a deliberate and careless tactic, argue Nick Bagley and Rachel Sachs on Take Care.
- Meanwhile, the Trump Administration released a rule trying to stabilize the health insurance markets by tweaking the special enrollment periods (The Hill, LA Times).
- Democrats responded to President Trump’s threat to withhold cost-sharing reductions by saying the payments will be a main focus during spending negotiations in late April (Politico, The Hill).
- Negotiations are ongoing among Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (The Atlantic).
- Ronald Brownstein, at The Atlantic, reports on opposition the Trump Administration has faced in repealing Medicaid Expansion from centrist Republicans.
- Centrist Republicans also oppose changing the Affordable Care Act’s Community Rating, a key-provision to protect persons with pre-existing health conditions (The Hill).
Reversing course, the Trump administration is now prioritizing the repeal of the Affordable Care Act over reforming the tax code (WaPo).
- NYT presents an interactive look at how Trump can dismantle key provisions of the Affordable Care Act without Congress.
Republicans may be close to an agreement on a new plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (The Hill).
The Trump Administration is willing to keep paying subsidies to insurers under Obamacare, even though House Republicans claim the payments are illegal (NYT).