Donald Trump's executive order on Obamacare will cripple the health insurance market

[Zorro]

The day after the election I wrote that Republicans would find it hard to repeal Obamacare — but not so hard to vandalize it.

In his first official action after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump applied the first smear of graffiti to a law that today brings health coverage to more than 20 million Americans.

The executive order Trump signed at the White House gives the Department of Heath and Human Services and other government agencies broad latitude to start undermining the law. It encourages them “to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” any provision of the law that would “impose a fiscal burden” on pretty much anyone — state, hospital, doctor, or patient.

In the first hours of theTrump administration, healthcare experts were divided about the impact of the order.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-trump-order-20170120-story.html

[pkdu]

1. ...let the lawsuits begin..nt

[Leith]

2. Define "Fiscal Burden"

And what is the order of precedence?

Is there anyone in the White House who knows how to run a country?

[BobTheSubgenius]

3. Know what places a financial burden on *someone* when it comes to health care?

EVERYTHING.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. "The individual risk pool is looking older and sicker".

Insurance companies created this monstrosity. I have no sympathy.......

Give me Medicare for all, with the insurance market offering supplementals and advantage plans if they want.