President Donald Trump is gradually losing in the war against Obamacare

The President Donald Trump administration’s rule geared toward enabling Americans to enroll into skimpy health insurance which are regarded as insurance plans which do not fit in to the key Affordable Care Act requirements- part of administration efforts to chip away at the healthcare law has been struck down by a United State Federal judge on Thursday, 28th March, 2019.

According to the judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, John Bates, “Is clearly an end-run around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare” one of the notable achievement of the immediate past Democratic President, Barack Obama.

The rule put forward by the U.S. Department of Labor, would have allowed small businesses and those who are self-employed to come together and buy lower-cost health insurance policies, similar to large employers.  In the suit filed by 11 states and the District of Columbia, the judge found the department unreasonably expanded the definition of employers to include groups without any real commonality of interest as well as business owners without employees.

According to John Bates in his ruling he stated that, “These provisions are unlawful and must be set aside.”

Requirements for Obamacare contains mandatory coverage for a set of 10 essential health benefits, such as maternity and newborn care, prescription drug costs and mental health treatment. According to the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about 11.8 million consumers nationwide enrolled in 2018 Obamacare exchange plans.

Skimpy plans has come under intense criticism from health providers, insurers and medical groups as saying that it could drive up premiums and make insurance unaffordable for some people by siphoning off healthy consumers who want cheaper coverage, leaving behind a sicker patient pool with higher medical costs in Obamacare plans.

In meeting up with a top campaign promise of President Donald Trump and other Republican Party politicians in 2016 to repeal and replace Obamacare has so far failed.

In stepping up its assault on Obamacare, President Donald Trump’s administration in a letter from the Justice Department to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals filed on Monday, 25th March, 2019 by saying it backed a federal judge’s ruling in December, 2018 that the Obamacare violated the U.S. Constitution because it required people to buy health insurance.

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