, Columnist
Obamacare Was Built With the Flaws Trump Now Exploits
Executive orders allowed the past administration to keep the program alive. They allow this administration to destroy it.
A foreseeable disaster.
Photographer: Photographer: T.J. Kirkpatrick/BloombergLike his predecessor, President Donald Trump has been frustrated by lack of action in Congress on Obamacare. Like his predecessor, he has resorted to executive fiat to get around that obstruction. Only instead of frantically trying to save the troubled program, he is yanking out the life-support cords installed by President Barack Obama.
This week saw two executive actions. With the first, Trump is trying to expand health insurance options outside of the Obamacare exchange for individual insurance plans (which will have the side effect of making on-exchange policies less attractive to healthy customers).