Remember when Donald Trump threw a tantrum on Twitter, after the disaster known as Trumpcare failed miserably? He tweeted Obamacare was going to explode.
Well, exploding it is under consideration and he wants to do the exploding,
If the Trump administration witholds payments for subsidies, millions could lose their healthcare. They wouldn't even need to pass Trumpcare, to end the healthcare of millions. End subsidies, watch Obamacare explode and throw the entire healthcare market into chaos.
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health plans must decide in June whether to stay in Obamacare insurance markets next year or pull out. If billions of dollars of cost-sharing subsidies dry up, the plans are more likely to leave, possibly quite rapidly. Millions of people could lose their coverage — and polls show people are becoming more likely to blame health law problems on President Donald Trump than on his predecessor.
Even considering ending subsidies is heartless and cruel.
Donald trump doesn't give three shits about the American people. His only goal is, because of his overly inflated narcissistic ego: kill anything associated with Barack Obama.
If Americans are harmed in the process, so be it.
One senior official said that the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House Office of Management and Budget were studying the impact of abruptly stopping billions of payments to the health plans that participate in the Obamacare markets. Insurers would have to pick up these costs, regardless of whether the federal funds are released.
What’s there to study? Millions will lose care.
Steve Bannon wants to kill the subsidies and he’s Trump’s brain.
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn want to keep subsidies. I'm sure these three know what a disaster this would be for Trump, but remember Trump’s brain always seems to win out in the end.
White House adviser Steve Bannon and his allies have argued to stop the subsidies, although even the hard-core Obamacare foes worry about the fallout from a precipitous collapse, according to sources inside and outside of the administration.
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn want to preserve the subsidies for now, those sources say.
The subsidies were part of a vigorous debate about the health law in the Oval Office last Friday. “That was a tough talk,” one senior administration official said.
“You don't put up the cash, and Obamacare implodes," the official added.
No money for subsidies, Obamacare fails. I wouldn't doubt this could happen.
Trump is totally focused on tearing apart Barack Obama’s legacy.
He’s totally obsessed with Obama. If millions of Americans suffer, because of this obsession that’s really not his problem. Trump lives in his own privileged fantasy world and he believes an action like this can easily be explained away on Twitter.
Keep #RESISTING