In a weird way, low-income people in Obamacare are actually pretty well protected here. The person I think of getting hurt by this plan is someone who's earning like $60,000 a year who is a cancer survivor. Democrats never anticipated the amount of resistance this law would get from Republicans. It was not built to manage this partisan battle that has been happening.
A coalition of 20 states filed a lawsuit claiming Obamacare is unconstitutional yesterday. Vox’s Sarah Kliff says that’s just the latest pushback on the Affordable Care Act. Idaho has been quietly allowing insurance plans that don’t comply with Obamacare’s rules, and the Trump administration hasn’t been doing anything to stop it. Experts say if the federal government doesn’t intervene, other red states will likely follow in Idaho’s footsteps.
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