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Trump’s CSR Sabotage In the Headlines

Late last night, President Trump announced he was cutting off the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments, paving the way for massive premium increases and potentially sowing chaos in the country’s health care marketplace. How is this being described? Take a look for yourself…

Washington Post: Throwing a bomb into the insurance markets, Trump now owns the broken health-care system

NPR: Trump Administration To End Obamacare Subsidies For The Poor

Axios: ​Trump takes a sledgehammer to the ACA

Washington Post: Trump moves from firing shots at Obamacare to all-out war

Washington Post: Trump’s not going to be able to avoid blame for kneecapping Obamacare

Politico: Trump does more to undercut Obamacare in one day than Congress did all year

Vox: Trump will pull Obamacare subsidies in another attack on health law

Vox: Trump’s acting like Obamacare is just politics. It’s people’s lives.

New York Daily News: Trump to scrap Obamacare subsidies designed to help low-income Americans

New York Times: Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again

Talking Points Memo: Trump Admin Ends Key O’care Payments In Latest Move To Undermine Law

Health Affairs: Administration’s Ending Of Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Likely To Roil Individual Markets

Forbes: Trump’s End To Obamacare Subsidies Hurts Patients, Not Insurers

Vice: Trump just made healthcare more expensive for millions of people

Bloomberg: Trump Cuts Off Health-Insurer Subsidy, Threatening Obamacare Chaos

CNBC: Obamacare bombshell: Trump kills key payments to health insurers

MSNBC: Trump goes to war against his own country’s health care system

Slate: Trump Will Reportedly Cut Vital Obamacare Subsidy, Potentially Throwing Marketplaces into Upheaval

Salon: Donald Trump unwittingly admits he’s sabotaging health care

Politico: Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidies

Real Vail: Obamacare now Trumpcare as president moves on his own to gut Affordable Care Act

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Trump to stop paying insurers, putting Obamacare in limbo

NBC News: White House Says It Will End Key Obamacare Subsidies to Insurers

Reuters: Trump scraps key Obamacare subsidies, urges Democrats to fix ‘broken mess’