President Donald Trump’s health policy is hurting U.S. citizens, says Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), “by affecting the ability of vulnerable people to receive health care right now.” On CNN’s State of the Union, Collins blasted the Trump administration’s decision to stop paying insurance companies for subsidizing health plans on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.
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Steve Bannon admits Trump is intentionally trying to ‘blow up’ health insurance markets
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told a conservative crowd at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday that Donald Trump cut off certain payments to insurers as part of an intentional effort to tank certain health insurance markets.
“Then you had Obamacare,” Bannon said as part of a list of so-called Trump accomplishments that Bannon thought would please the crowd, “not going to make the CSR payments. That’s going to blow that thing up — gonn...
Trump brags that plunging stocks are evidence of his success
President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet Saturday morning that plunging health insurance stocks were evidence of his success — just three days after insisting the media cover soaring stock prices, purportedly the result of his successes as president.
Trump published the tweet two days after the White House announced a new health care policy in which the federal government will halt its practice of paying insurance companies for subsidizing health care for low-income people.
White House claims Trump’s Twitter account is personal, so he can block whoever he likes
The White House has filed a legal brief arguing people blocked by President Donald Trump’s Twitter account cannot sue him for restricting their access to his tweets. Opponents say the brief is tantamount to claiming the Commander in Chief’s social media use is beyond the reach of the First Amendment, placing the president above the law.
The argument came in reaction to a lawsuit filed in July by seven users who have been blocked by Trump on Twitter and the Knight First Amendment Ins...
Several states vow to sue Trump administration over Obamacare sabotage
The Trump administration’s recent decision to abruptly end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that helps insurers lower out-of-pocket medical fees for millions of Americans has spurred some states to consider taking legal action.
Attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and New York have said they plan to sue the Trump administration in order to keep money flowing to their states.
“Hundreds of thousands of New York fa...
The lies Trump tells as he sabotages health care for nearly 22 million people
In the last 24 hours, Trump has clearly undercut the Affordable Care Act, sending insurers and millions of Americans into uncertainty.
At 10:47 p.m. on Thursday, the Trump administration released a press statement saying it would stop paying insurance companies for subsidizing health care to low-income people, breaking an agreement between the White House and insurers. Just a few hours earlier that day, he had signed an executive order aimed to hobble the Affordable Care Act (ACA) m...
Trumpcare is here
Just two weeks after the Senate once again tried — and failed — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it’s become eminently clear that those failures don’t matter. Trumpcare has arrived.
On Thursday morning, President Trump signed an executive order that will allow people to buy stripped down health insurance plans if they’re unsatisfied with options offered on the Obamacare exchanges, and hours later the White House confirmed Trump will stop making critic...
‘It was a group of 13 men who did it’: Republican senator criticizes GOP health care reform efforts
During a Friday morning speech in which she announced she’ll forgo a run for governor and stay in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) criticized Senate Republican leadership for shutting women out of the process of developing health care legislation.
Amid a broader critique of the secretive process Republicans used in their failed attempts to repeal Obamacare earlier this year, Collins decried that “the Senate Republican health care bills were drafted behind close...
Obamacare sabotage in Florida: they had the most signups, and now they have the most to lose
Alex spends his days explaining how health insurance works to people in Florida. People who are enrolled in private plans on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace call a 1-800 number, and he’s there to answer any questions they may have about premium tax credits, coinsurance, and things of that sort. He’s a licensed navigator for the Community Health Interventions & Sickle Cell Agency Inc., which receives a federal grant for its efforts. And this time last month, he was temporarily...
BREAKING: Trump expected to stop making vital Obamacare subsidy payments
President Trump is expected to stop paying vital subsidies that offset the costs for insurers of covering lower-income people, according to a report from Politico Thursday night.
The payments, called cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), are the subject of a lawsuit filed by House Republicans during the Obama administration, which House Republicans won. The Obama administration appealed and continued making the payments, which are worth an estimated $7 billion per year.
Trump can s...