The Trump administration has taken a first step to reshape Obamacare through its own administrative powers, even as Republicans on Capitol Hill remain stymied over how to repeal and replace the healthcare law.
A rule proposed on Wednesday, which would tighten up enrollment and allow plans across all tiers to cover fewer medical expenses, is likely to please health insurers facing deep marketplace uncertainty, and comes on the heels of an announcement Tuesday by major insurer Humana that it’s exiting next year due to heavy losses.
The changes are a key way for Trump and Republicans to tweak the Affordable Care Act more quickly than changing it through the legislative process, which is taking longer than they’d originally promised and may be gummed up by growing GOP divisions for how to approach it all.
It also allows Republicans to tell constituents they’re taking immediate steps to improve the healthcare law they’ve blasted for years. And it’s a way for the administration to appease health insurers, who were already struggling with sicker, more expensive marketplace patients than expected and are now unsure about what the marketplaces will look like next year if Congress upends the law.
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Trump administration takes first steps toward changing #Obamacare
https://t.co/nKFvmigMIr— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) February 15, 2017
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