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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 02:39 PM Oct 2017

Its happening: Health care costs soar in Pennsylvania after Trump cuts Obamacare payments

It’s happening: Health care costs soar in Pennsylvania after Trump cuts Obamacare payments
Trump very proudly took credit for the state of the health care system and declared Obamacare no more. Immediately afterward, Pennsylvania announced premiums will jump by 30.6 percent.
By Matthew Chapman OCTOBER 16, 2017

Donald Trump refused to let the GOP’s failures to repeal Obamacare stand in his way.

This month, he struck back by signing executive orders ending the birth control mandate, pushing people to buy “association” and “short-term” plans without consumer protections, and — most crucially — terminating cost sharing reduction subsidies to insurers.

On Monday, Trump boasted in bizarre fashion to reporters that, through executive fiat, he had gotten rid of the health law once and for all.

“Obamacare is finished. It’s dead. It’s gone,” he rambled. “You shouldn’t even mention it. It’s gone. There is no such thing as Obamacare any more.”

Trump should be careful what he wishes for, because just hours after his proclamation, the first effects of his sabotage became clear in Pennsylvania.

https://shareblue.com/its-happening-health-care-costs-soar-in-pennsylvania-after-trump-cuts-obamacare-payments/
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Its happening: Health care costs soar in Pennsylvania after Trump cuts Obamacare payments (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2017 OP
Trumpcare is pricey and useless. Ilsa Oct 2017 #1
Healthcare costs are going to skyrocket under Trumpcare workinclasszero Oct 2017 #3
#Trumpcare horror stories. I wonder when Ilsa Oct 2017 #2

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. Trumpcare is pricey and useless.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 02:50 PM
Oct 2017

I have an R friend who bought her insurance through the marketplace. She's had cancer, is between 56-60 years old, living in TX. I bet she thought she was going to get a better deal with Trumpcare.

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