HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): "President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a step toward temporarily stabilizing a key part of the Affordable Care Act, while Republicans are increasingly talking about repairing the law instead of swiftly repealing it—small shifts that reflect a larger scaling-back of the GOP’s hopes of quickly dismantling the law.
On Thursday [2-2-17], the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, sent a proposed rule on shoring up the individual insurance market under the ACA to the Office of Management and Budget for White House review. The details of what the proposed rule would do still aren’t public, but people involved in the drafting of the proposal say it aims to help bolster the ACA exchange markets at least in the short term."
– “Republicans Weigh Moves to Bolster Health Law,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 2, 2017, Stephanie Armour, Kristina Peterson, and Michelle Hackman, 2/2/2017