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A coalition of cities is currently suing the Trump administration over its deliberate actions to undermine and harm the ACA (not to mention those people who need it).
Their complaint is fascinating for the extended cataloging it does of executive actions taken to depress marketplace enrollment, drive up premiums, and increase uninsurance. They spend ~150 pages describing in detail each of these actions and its impacts on their municipalities but the list they've put together is below.
(Mind you, this is just executive actions taken in the past two years, it doesn't include any sabotage conducted by the GOP Congress since 2011.)
That's a strong list!
Their complaint is fascinating for the extended cataloging it does of executive actions taken to depress marketplace enrollment, drive up premiums, and increase uninsurance. They spend ~150 pages describing in detail each of these actions and its impacts on their municipalities but the list they've put together is below.
(Mind you, this is just executive actions taken in the past two years, it doesn't include any sabotage conducted by the GOP Congress since 2011.)
- Eliminating Protections that the ACA Guarantees
- Permitting Exchanges to Strip Individuals of Eligibility for Tax Credits Without Providing Direct Notification
- Outsourcing to States the Compliance Review of Insurance Plans to be Offered on Federal Exchanges
- Reducing Oversight of Insurance Brokers Participating in Direct Enrollment
- Deterring Americans from Enrolling in Quality Health Insurance Plans
- Making It Harder to Compare Insurance Plans
- Undermining the Navigator Program
- Making Small Business Exchanges Less User-Friendly
- Imposing Unnecessary Income Verification Requirements
- Driving Up Costs
- Curtailing Review of Insurance Rate Increases
- Reducing Rebates for Poor Insurer Performance
- Directing Agencies to Sabotage the Act
- Attempting to Destabilize the Exchanges
- Promoting Bare-Bones Plans to Try to Weaken ACA Exchanges
- Undermining the Individual Mandate
- Refusing to Grant State Waiver Requests that Would Further the ACA’s Goals
- Enabling and Encouraging States to Seek Waivers that Would Undercut the ACA’s Goals .
- Attempting to Weaken Public Confidence in ACA Exchanges
- Working to Decrease Enrollment
- Shortening Open Enrollment
- Cutting Funding for Advertising and Refusing to Publicize Open Enrollment
- Cutting Funding for Navigators and Encouraging Them to Undermine the Act
- Failing to Set Numeric Enrollment Targets for 2018 and 2019
- Refusing to Participate in Enrollment Events and Other Outreach
- Arbitrarily Driving Up Premiums
- Refusing to Defend the Act
That's a strong list!
