A federal judge has struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by President Donald Trump, marking the second setback in a week for the administration's health care initiatives.
On Wednesday, another federal judge blocked the Trump administration's Medicaid work requirements for low-income people.
Trump has eagerly talked up the plans, saying they're doing record business by offering "Tremendous health care at very small cost." But the Labor Department regulation authorizing them only took effect last summer, and they don't seem to have made a major impact on the market.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who joined other Democratic state officials in suing the Trump administration, said the judge "Saw past the Trump administration's transparent effort to sabotage our health care system and gut these critical consumer protections in the service of its own partisan agenda."
His ruling seems to signal limits to how far the Trump administration can advance with its strategy of relying on regulations to transform health care.
Trump has made a sharp turn back to health care this week, with the administration joining the side of Texas and other GOP-led states seeking to completely overturn Obamacare as unconstitutional.
At the same time, Trump has been promising a new health care plan that would be much better than Obamacare, tweeting that Republicans will become "The Party of Great HealthCare!".
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-trumps-small-business-health-insurance-plan-struck-down/
On Wednesday, another federal judge blocked the Trump administration's Medicaid work requirements for low-income people.
Trump has eagerly talked up the plans, saying they're doing record business by offering "Tremendous health care at very small cost." But the Labor Department regulation authorizing them only took effect last summer, and they don't seem to have made a major impact on the market.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who joined other Democratic state officials in suing the Trump administration, said the judge "Saw past the Trump administration's transparent effort to sabotage our health care system and gut these critical consumer protections in the service of its own partisan agenda."
His ruling seems to signal limits to how far the Trump administration can advance with its strategy of relying on regulations to transform health care.
Trump has made a sharp turn back to health care this week, with the administration joining the side of Texas and other GOP-led states seeking to completely overturn Obamacare as unconstitutional.
At the same time, Trump has been promising a new health care plan that would be much better than Obamacare, tweeting that Republicans will become "The Party of Great HealthCare!".
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-trumps-small-business-health-insurance-plan-struck-down/
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