COURTS/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three years into a presidency that promised to kill Obamacare, the health care law has never been stronger. Millions of people buying coverage during the enrollment period starting Friday [11-1-19] will find that average premiums have dropped across the country. When consumers go to HealthCare.gov, they’ll be paying 4 percent less on average for the most popular health plans — with six states reporting a double-digit decline. The years of huge rate hikes and insurers abandoning the markets appear to be a thing of the past as the 10th anniversary of the law approaches next spring. Predictions of the Affordable Care Act’s demise — made by President Donald Trump himself and Democrats who criticized administration policies undermining the law — haven’t materialized…There may be no coming back from the next one, though. A federal appeals court any day now could announce whether it will uphold a decision from a federal judge who found the entire law unconstitutional.”
–Dan Gan Goldberg, “Obamacare is stronger than ever — and a Trump-backed lawsuit could destroy it,” Politico, October 31, 2019 5:03 am