Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again<br />“With these actions,” Mr. Trump said at a White House ceremony, “we are moving toward lower costs<br />and more options in the health care market, and taking crucial steps toward saving the American people from the nightmare of Obamacare.”<br />“This is going to be something that millions and millions of people will be signing<br />up for,” the president predicted, “and they’re going to be very happy.”<br />But many patients, doctors, hospital executives and state insurance regulators were not so happy.<br />It concluded that “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.”<br />In a joint statement, the top Democrats in Congress, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York<br />and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, said Mr. Trump had “apparently decided to punish the American people for his inability to improve our health care system.”<br />“It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America,” they said.<br />The White House said that a broader interpretation of federal law — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 — “could potentially<br />allow employers in the same line of business anywhere in the country to join together to offer health care coverage to their employees.”<br />The order won applause from potential sponsors of association health plans, including the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce<br />and Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade group for the construction industry.
