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Headline Roundup October 13th, 2017

Trump Ends ACA Subsidies

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President Trump ends key payments to insurers selling ObamaCare plans, marking Trump's most aggressive move yet to dismantle the law after multiple GOP efforts to repeal and replace it failed this year.

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Trump's New Executive Order Makes It Easier to Buy Insurance Outside of Obamacare
Trump's New Executive Order Makes It Easier to Buy Insurance Outside of Obamacare

Reason

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Trump's order reveals how Obamacare functions as a trap for policymakers.

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

Washington Post

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President Trump took two giant steps Thursday to disembowel the Affordable Care Act.

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Trump scraps key Obamacare subsidies, urges Democrats to fix 'broken mess'
Trump scraps key Obamacare subsidies, urges Democrats to fix 'broken mess'

Reuters

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President Donald Trump on Friday urged Democrats to make a deal with him on healthcare after he scrapped billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to private health insurers for low-income Americans in a move that raised concerns about chaos in insurance markets and could face legal challenges.

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