Trump to Let States Divert Obamacare Funds to Other Health Plans
- Change aims to make insurance more affordable, expand choice
- Critics call it another attempt to weaken Affordable Care Act
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The Trump administration plans to allow states to direct billions of dollars of Obamacare subsidies to health plans that don’t meet the law’s requirements.
The change is intended to make insurance more affordable and expand consumer choice. Premiums for Affordable Care Act health plans have increased in recent years, straining the budgets of many middle-class people who don’t qualify for the law’s subsidies.