Trump personally told health chief to deny Iowa's urgent Obamacare waiver
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President Donald Trump personally told a top federal health official to reject Iowa's pending request to try to stabilize its individual insurance market with a waiver from Obamacare rules, according to a new report.
And a leading Obamacare expert now says that Trump's reported call seems to be part of a broader effort to actually drive up prices of Obamacare health plans so as to "undermine" the Affordable Care Act.
The new Washington Post article said that Trump in late August called Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after seeing a Wall Street Journal story detailing Iowa's so-called 1332 waiver request.
That waiver request was being pushed by Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, who in an Aug. 21 letter to Verma's then boss, Dr. Tom Price, said, "We face an immediate collapsing [individual insurance] market that could leave thousands without health insurance and the rest with 56 [percent] or higher premium rate increases."
Both of Iowa's senators, Republicans Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, also wrote Price and Verma to ask them to give the waiver request "all due consideration," as they also said state residents "are facing an unaffordable and unstable individual health insurance market."
Despite those urgent requests, the Post reported that Trump's "message" to Verma was clear "according to individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations: Tell Iowa no."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/trump-personally-told-health-chief-to-deny-iowas-urgent-obamacare-waiver-report.html
The well being of Americans is of no importance compared to his obsession to destroy any good Obama did.
He is a sick son of a bitch and a danger to the Republic.
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