Not long after we shared the news that Mr. Trump was ending illegal handouts to insurance companies, lame-duck New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is criticizing him for it.
Late last night, President Trump announced that he will torpedo the individual insurance market by ordering the government to stop making the Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments it owes. He is right to be so ashamed of this spiteful action he would only announce it in the dead of night. Stopping these payments won’t just hurt the lower-income people whose out-of-pocket costs are defrayed by CSRs, it will also hurt every one of the millions of Americans who buy their own coverage.
No mention of how Congress did not approve them, hor how a court ordered them halted because they are illegal – and order Mr. Obama ignored. No mention of how much more those millions of Americans have to pay now because of ObamaCare and that any additional increases are also because of ObamaCare. Increases that should have happened sooner but were masked with Obama’s authorization of illegal billion dollar bailouts to giant insurance companies. No mention of the millions of people who lost their doctor or their plan after all the promises to the contrary.
But then, this is Carol Che-Porter the Pelosi Puppet Reporter and who better to take one for the team than a Congressional has-been who never really was.
