10/12/2017
Increasingly frustrated by failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump has taken another step to sabotage it. Under his new executive order, businesses will be able to purchase health care coverage across state lines. It's an idea Republicans have tried to sell for years as the free-market fix for the health care system. Don't be fooled. The order will:
1) Create loopholes for employers to offer skimpier health coverage. Special exemptions could bypass the Affordable Care Act's essential health benefits requirement and patient protections.
2) Lure healthy people into these lousy health plans, thereby lumping the sick together and driving up costs.
3) Expand short-term insurance plans designed for the unemployed that offer fewer benefits and higher out-of-pocket costs. This too would lure healthy people away and raise premiums for everybody else.
This latest step comes as Trump has threatened to withhold federal dollars to states that have expanded Medicaid and cut funding for marketing campaigns designed to promote enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's health exchanges. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, these sabotage tactics have already destabilized the insurance market.
Trump's scorched-earth attack on the Affordable Care Act threatens the health and well-being of millions of Americans. If he let's the program fail, it's up to us to hold him and the Republicans fully accountable.
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