Healthcare Triage News: Trump Cuts ACA Cost-sharing Payments, Lawsuits Incoming

This week, Donald Trump’s administration continued to try and undermine the Affordable Care Act by terminating cost-sharing payments to insurers. Ironically, in the long run, this will increase premiums, which will mean the federal government is on the hook to pay subsidies for Obamacare marketplace enrollees with lower incomes.

This video was adapted from a post by Nick here at TIE.  You might also want to read Nick’s and Craig Garthwaite’s NY Times Op-ed.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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