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Trump's Health-Care Wrecking Ball
All the president's attempts to destroy Obamacare display the same disregard for Americans' health.
Executive action.
Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has announced some new strategies to destabilize the individual health-insurance market, but his misguided objective is the same as ever: to undermine the Affordable Care Act and, more broadly, the very idea of health insurance.
His latest executive order, signed Thursday, will cause premiums to fall drastically for “millions of Americans,” Trump said. What he didn’t mention is that these potential savings would accrue only to people healthy enough to gamble on skimpy insurance coverage. Sicker people, left stranded in a deteriorating risk pool, would see their premiums rise.