The Trump administration’s first big decision on the fate of Obamacare will come in February. That’s when the administration will have to decide what to do about a lawsuit filed by House Republicans to stop cost-sharing payments being made to insurers.
The underlying issue is a program designed to lower costs, such as deductibles, for low-income enrollees. The insurers offer a discount and the Obama administration has been making payments to insurers to offset those costs. In 2014, the GOP House filed a lawsuit against the administration saying the law lacked any appropriation for the money being paid to insurers. The GOP won a victory this summer when a court agreed the House had standing to sue the administration.
The next step in the ongoing lawsuit was set to take place just a day before Trump is inaugurated, but Monday the House filed a request asking the court to delay further action in the case until late February. Assuming the judge agrees, that will give the Trump administration a chance to decide how it wants to proceed in the lawsuit. There’s almost no doubt the Trump administration will want to end the payments but there are a couple ways in which it could do that. ...Read the rest of the story HERE.
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