Trumps Obamacare Sabotage Is Doing Real Damage To American Health Care
Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Is Doing Real Damage To American Health Care
A series of blows is taking its toll.
By Jonathan Cohn 10/14/2017 04:19 pm ET
The damage is not catastrophic. But it is real and it will linger.
That was the conclusion many health care industry officials and analysts had reached by week’s end, following a pair of blows that President Donald Trump delivered to the Affordable Care Act ― and, indirectly, to the millions of people who buy private health insurance on their own.
The first blow came on Thursday, in the form of an executive order designed to undermine the new rules that “Obamacare” has placed on insurers. The 2010 health care law famously prohibits carriers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. It also requires that all plans cover a set of “essential” health benefits including mental health and maternity care.
With the executive order, Trump instructed three federal agencies to carve out some exceptions to those rules. The result could be a parallel market full of plans that don’t have all of the essential benefits and, in some cases, that are available to people only in relatively good health.
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