04-13-2017, 03:41 PM
Continuing to sabotage Obamacare..
Yea, you read this right. The President of the United States threatens to cut healthcare funding from millions simply as a negotiating ploy. This is outright blackmail, let alone sabotage.
And then you have people who compare this to Luther King..
Quote:President Donald Trump has not given up on the holy grail of repealing Obamacare, and on Wednesday he revealed his next move, threatening to use health insurance subsidies as a weapon to get Democrats to negotiate on reform. Trump said his administration may not have the legal authority to make cost-sharing reduction payments, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. So-called CSR subsidies reduce out-of-pocket costs for low-income Affordable Care Act enrollees, but Republicans in Congress sued the Obama administration, saying they expenditures were not authorized under the ACA.President Donald Trump threatens to cut Obamacare subsidies
Yea, you read this right. The President of the United States threatens to cut healthcare funding from millions simply as a negotiating ploy. This is outright blackmail, let alone sabotage.
And then you have people who compare this to Luther King..
Quote:"Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare," Lord, a pro-Trump surrogate, said during an appearance on CNN.Jeffrey Lord on CNN: Trump is Martin Luther King, MLK of healthcare - Business Insider
"When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn't popular, he didn't have the votes for it, etcetera. Dr. King kept putting people in the streets, in harms way, to put the pressure on so that the bill would be introduced. That's what finally worked," he continued.
Lord was referring to Trump's suggestion that his administration could stop funding cost-sharing subsidies in the individual insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. These subsidies currently go to insurance companies to allow them to offer lower out-of-pocket costs to low-income Americans.
Estimates show that pulling funding would increase premiums by nearly 20% over the current projection for next year and could lead to an exodus of insurers form the exchanges.
Health policy experts have said the move would be potentially devastating for low-income people and the more than 12 million people currently enrolled in health insurance through the Obamacare exchanges. Additionally, they argue the move would effectively fulfill Trump's claims that the market is "collapsing."