Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.824b6e0cd6c8

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday morning intended to allow small businesses and potentially individuals to buy a long-disputed type of health insurance that skirts state regulations and Affordable Care Act protections.

The White House and allies portray the president’s move to expand access to “association health plans” as wielding administrative powers to accomplish what congressional Republicans have failed to achieve: tearing down the law’s insurance marketplaces and letting some Americans buy skimpier coverage at lower prices. The order is 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 such health plans will 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 actions, they say, will spark court challenges over their legality.

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Thoughts?
 
my thoughts are once Trump is done with the US Sub Saharan Africa will start looking a whole lot more appealing.
 
Critics, who include state insurance commissioners, most of the health-insurance industry and mainstream policy specialists,
As if there is any difference between the three.
 
Good.

Obamacare nearly lead to the ruin of my family.

My excellent insurance plan was canceled for not being "Affordable Care Act compliant". This happened right as my daughter fell very ill.

Real people have been hurt by Obamacare, and the ONLY person to do anything about it is President Trump!
 
Good.

Obamacare nearly lead to the ruin of my family.

My excellent insurance plan was canceled for not being "Affordable Care Act compliant". This happened right as my daughter fell very ill.

Real people have been hurt by Obamacare, and the ONLY person to do anything about it is President Trump!

Obamacare did not do that to you, your insurance company did that to you.
 
Trump shouldn't be using EOs to do this, this needs to be done in congress. Democrats might celebrate a president going outside his function with a pen or a phone but this is not the right way to go.
 
No, because you can look at the law itself and see that existing insurance plans did not have to meet the new rules.


But the government rewrote what a 'standard healthcare plan' under their rules had to coverage which changed already existing plans which didn't mean government standards
 
Obamacare did not do that to you, your insurance company did that to you.
Lots of people don’t know the difference between Obamacare, Medicaid,health insurance, etc.
I have friend who loves trump and hates Obamacare and I asked him if he had health insurance and he told me “yup I’m covered under mi parents till I’m 25, if I had Obamacare I would probably be dropped and not cover any of my pre existing health problems” he has asthma by the way.
{<jordan}
 
Obamacare did not do that to you, your insurance company did that to you.
Because my policy wasn't compliant with the Affordable Care Act.

If Obamacare would have never passed, my insurance policy wouldn't have been canceled when it was. It would take a feat of mental gymnastics to say Obamacare wasn't the reason for the cancellation.

Fascinating, whenever I tell my story of my issues with Obamacare, people on the left never address my concerns, they call me a liar because my story doesn't fit the Obamacare narrative.
 
Trump shouldn't be using EOs to do this, this needs to be done in congress. Democrats might celebrate a president going outside his function with a pen or a phone but this is not the right way to go.
How did you turn this on Dems?
 
But the government rewrote what a 'standard healthcare plan' under their rules had to coverage which changed already existing plans which didn't mean government standards

Not at all. Existing plans did not have to met the new standards and did not have to change in anyway.
 
Because my policy wasn't compliant with the Affordable Care Act.

If Obamacare would have never passed, my insurance policy wouldn't have been canceled when it was. It would take a feat of mental gymnastics to say Obamacare wasn't the reason for the cancellation.

Fascinating, whenever I tell my story of my issues with Obamacare, people on the left never address my concerns, they call me a liar because my story doesn't fit the Obamacare narrative.

We have been through this before, if that is what your insurance company told you they lied to you.
 
Lots of people don’t know the difference between Obamacare, Medicaid,health insurance, etc.
I have friend who loves trump and hates Obamacare and I asked him if he had health insurance and he told me “yup I’m covered under mi parents till I’m 25, if I had Obamacare I would probably be dropped and not cover any of my pre existing health problems” he has asthma by the way.
{<jordan}

Ya, Trump supporters aren't usually the most informed people around
 
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