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The administration’s latest move on health care kept the pressure on the Affordable Care Act by cutting off cost-sharing payments and pushing the market toward more uncertainty. Trump wanted the headline of a tough anti-Obamacare strike. What he got was a fresh round of warnings that the White House was nudging premiums, insurers, and consumers into a mess it had no real plan to solve.
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The administration’s latest move on health care kept the pressure on the Affordable Care Act by cutting off cost-sharing payments and pushing the market toward more uncertainty. Trump wanted the headline of a tough anti-Obamacare strike. What he got was a fresh round of warnings that the White House was nudging premiums, insurers, and consumers into a mess it had no real plan to solve.
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The administration’s latest move on health care kept the pressure on the Affordable Care Act by cutting off cost-sharing payments and pushing the market toward more uncertainty. Trump wanted the headline of a tough anti-Obamacare strike. What he got was a fresh round of warnings that the White House was nudging premiums, insurers, and consumers into a mess it had no real plan to solve.
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