HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House won a major institutional victory over the White House on health care spending last week, but it wasn’t really a fair fight in the end.
The Trump administration capitulated in a long-running legal dispute over health insurance subsidies paid out under the Affordable Care Act, concurring with House Republicans’ claim that the Obama administration had unconstitutionally spent billions of dollars.
In siding with the House, the Trump administration found a legal justification for its decision to stop paying as much as $7 billion this year to insurers in exchange for holding down out-of-pocket expenses for millions of Americans. Democrats say the decision is a blatant attempt to undermine the health care law by roiling the insurance markets and driving up costs for consumers.“
-Carl Hulse, “Trump Closes a Health Dispute, but Leaves Open a Power Struggle,” The New York Times online, Oct. 15, 2017