For eight years
Republicans ran on the promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act,
but despite the fact that they control all branches of government they are
finding it very difficult to undermine one of President Obama’s signature
achievements. But that hast stopped
President Trump from doing his part to sabotage Obamacare, whether it’s
slashing the program’s advertising budget or threatening to cut off some
payments that insurers need to cover their costs. Now, according to Jonathan Cohn of HuffPost,
he is thinking about using his executive authority to do something that could
be even more damaging to the law ― and, arguably, more threatening to people
who depend on it for coverage. Jonathan joins me on the show today to talk all
about how Trump’s new plan to undermine the ACA by using executive actions that
could destabilize markets and undermine pre-existing condition protections and
explain why this does not require the consent of Congress.
Since we last spoke
with Mark Joseph Stern of Slate last week a lot has happened, from
Trump using Pence as prop in a tax-payer funded political stunt to the Supreme
Court hearing oral arguments in the important gerrymandering case Gill v. Whitford. Mark returns to the show today to talk all
about these issues and so much more.
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