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Ed Morrissey
Oct. 13, 2017

Surprise! It turns out that Congress didn’t fund direct subsidy payments to health insurers. Actually, it’s not much of a surprise, not even to the Trump administration, which has chosen to make those payments anyway … until now. The White House announced last night, and Donald Trump confirmed this morning, that those payments will stop immediately, which will almost immediately create even more instability in the ObamaCare exchanges:

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 888high58888  Well, that's one way to repeal Bammycare.
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888high58888  Well, that's one way to repeal Bammycare.


It's been said all along that much could be done with EOs but it seems that every little thing involved must first be thoroughly checked.



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It's been said all along that much could be done with EOs but it seems that every little thing involved must first be thoroughly checked.

Pres. Trump deserves a lot of credit for moving ahead on this and allowing buyers to form groups that can buy across state lines. Way to go!

I think the delay was because he tried working with the Pub party and they not only sold us out, but sold him out as well. The primary loss of Strange may have gotten Pres. Trump back on the right tract as well. It's probably become clear to him that his base won't just go wherever he wants and if he wants to keep them he has to push ahead with what he said he would do. It's a shame the Pub party doesn't understand this.
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Pres. Trump deserves a lot of credit for moving ahead on this and allowing buyers to form groups that can buy across state lines. Way to go!

I think the delay was because he tried working with the Pub party and they not only sold us out, but sold him out as well. The primary loss of Strange may have gotten Pres. Trump back on the right tract as well. It's probably become clear to him that his base won't just go wherever he wants and if he wants to keep them he has to push ahead with what he said he would do. It's a shame the Pub party doesn't understand this.

Can anyone imagine Yeb doing anything close to this?

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Can anyone imagine Yeb doing anything close to this?


Something close to Medicare Part D.



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Can anyone imagine Yeb doing anything close to this?

Not a chance. He would have pushed for single payer to solve the problem.

We did have other good conservative candidates in the primaries that would have done this. Sen. Cruz comes to mind right off the top. But Pres. Trump does deserve credit for actually doing it.
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