President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to allow small businesses and potentially individuals to buy a long-disputed type of health insurance that skirts state regulations and Affordable Care Act protections. [snip]
... The order represents Trump’s biggest step to carry out a broad but ill-defined directive he issued his first night in office for agencies to lessen ACA regulations from the Obama administration.
Critics, who include state insurance commissioners, most of the health-insurance industry and mainstream policy specialists, predict that a proliferation of such health plans will have damaging ripple effects: driving up costs for consumers with serious medical conditions and prompting more insurers to flee the law’s marketplaces.The executive order would have to be implemented by Federal regulations and then face challenges in court. Elements, however, could be in place for the 2019 coverage open period.
Vox has detailed the efforts being made by Rump and his fellow degenerates to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, via shortening the open enrollment period and cutting spending on advertising and assistance efforts, all with the goal of reducing participation in ACA plans and triggering a "death spiral" of higher premiums and ever- lower young and healthy enrollees. So shrinking enrollment is an enormous threat to the viability of the market, and that's why it's the best target of opportunity for these shits.
Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act is supported more strongly than ever, with 52% of Americans viewing it favorably (versus 39% -- i.e., Republicans and possibly some single payer cultists). In another poll from this summer:
... But voters don’t want Trump and the GOP to let the existing insurance market falter if Obamacare remains law. Fifty-nine percent of voters want Congress to make any changes necessary to the Affordable Care Act to ensure it does not fail...Of course, the compulsion to obliterate anything with the name "Obama" on it, no matter the cost, is what's going on here in the moron's seriously damaged brain, since he's ignorant of policy on any level and can't be bothered to care about the impacts (he's a sociopath after all).
It's been suggested, with the signing of today's egregious executive order, that Rump has taken personal responsibility for the fate of the ACA. We think that's a reasonable assessment, too. If Rump and Republicans break it now, they own it. Therefore, let us resolve to call the ACA what it is, in "honor" of the moron who has its fate in his tiny hands: Trumpcare.
