Several States Sue to Stop Trump Order Ending Obamacare Subsidies
With limited–income health care consumers “scared, anxious,
and worried” and insurers backed into a corner by President Trump’s sabotaging
of the Affordable Care Act, at least 18 states are now suing to stop the
administration.
Those states, plus Washington, D.C., joined
a lawsuit on Friday in a CA federal court to seek a restraining order and both
preliminary and permanent injunctions to require healthcare subsidies
under ACA—also known as Obamacare—to continue to be paid by the federal
government, The Hill reported.
Leading the legal counterattack is CA Attorney General
Xavier Becerra:
Becerra is not alone in his contempt for the president’s many
recent attempts to undermine the accomplishments of predecessor Barack Obama,
including rescinding access to affordable health care by potentially millions
of Americans—and then lying
about it in self–congratulatory
tweets.
Governors on both sides of the aisle also joined in
denouncing Trump’s executive order, issued on Thursday, which would cut
cost–sharing reduction (CSR) payments and end limits on short–term insurance—a recipe
for disaster on both fronts. Those payments totaled about $7 billion last
year alone.