Trump Controls Key Funding Move in Health Care Fight

[DonViejo]

President could stop cost-sharing subsidy payments to insurers

Posted Jul 19, 2017 5:01 AM
Todd Ruger

If President Donald Trump wants to “let Obamacare fail” as he says, there’s a ready way for him to give it a push.

So far, the Trump administration and House Republicans have agreed to keep frozen a case in a Washington appeals court over appropriations as part of a push to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law. The case is left over from when House Republicans sued the Obama administration in 2014.

But Trump could simply pull the plug on the government’s appeal. Part of such a move could cement in place a lower court ruling that ordered the Obama administration to stop subsidy payments to health insurance providers under the law.

Right now, there’s nobody involved in the case who could stop him except House Republicans.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. I am not so sure about the conclusion of the articles. Any attempt to withdraw the appeal would be

met with an instant a lawsuit to retain the subsidies until a pro-ACA lawsuit could be heard. That lawsuit is probably already drawn up by the Democrats.