The I.R.S. has started sending penalty notices to businesses that failed to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, angering Republicans and business groups.
Democratic candidates for the House say voters will punish Republicans for voting last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act, even though the law survived.
The president has undermined the Affordable Care Act, but it “remains the law,” the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said. But she encouraged the state to keep trying.
Evaluations of state experiments “generally lacked rigor,” and the findings were often kept secret for years, so they were of little use, a government report said.
President Trump’s efforts to undermine the health law have widened the gap between those who get government aid and those who don’t, deepening resentments.