Trump To Blame For Spike in "Obamacare" Premiums

@anniepa (27955)
United States
October 18, 2017 5:29pm CST
Obamacare premiums were finally stabilizing, rates for 2018 were set to increase only by single digits...until Monday when Donald Trump decided to end the subsidies for lower income customers. Now those increases will be more like 40% or more. When Donald says "Obamacare" is dead it's because HE killed it. Up until a few days it was just another of his many lies. Now, he's likely killing many Americans along with the plan.
The wild card for 2018 rates is the president of the United States.
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topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
18 Oct 17
There is something interesting about Trump "zigging and zagging" about the Obamacare at the end of this article.
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anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Oct 17
That's an excellent article and it really sums up many of the horrible traits of this so-called POTUS. I'm hoping something is done to get him out before he destroys everything.
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josefina
@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
21 Oct 17
It seems Trump only cares about undoing all that Obama achieve during his presidency. After almost a year in office Trump has nothing to show for it. This constant fault-finding and blaming his predecessor is his way to divert public attention from his incompetency.
dlr297
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
21 Oct 17
Trump ended the subsidies because they were not constitutional, and against the law.....In reality, the Constitution scraps Obama’s subsidies. They were never lawful because Congress never appropriated the money. In fact, there is unmistakeable evidence that President Obama knew that his administration needed a specific appropriation to fund Section 1402 subsidies — he asked Congress for the money. Congress said no. It didn’t appropriate a single dime. So Obama did what he did best: He “penned and phoned” the subsidies into existence. He directly violated the Constitution by spending the money anyway.