Donald Trump isn’t stupid on healthcare and other socal safety net service’s…..
His conservative friends are up to lose this one against him….
However?
The Bottom line is the President makes the decision on these policies as Trump continues to try and carve out MORE power FOR the executive branch if Congress allows it….
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared inclined Monday to reject a conservative challenge to Obamacare, leaving in place the federal government’s authority to require insurers to cover everything from depression screenings to HIV prevention drugs at no cost to patients.
And, in an odd twist, it was the Trump administration defending the health law that the president has spent more than a decade excoriating.
Over an hour and a half of in-the-weeds arguments, the justices seemed to favor the administration’s position — that Obamacare’s coverage mandates are constitutional because the task force that recommends them is made up of members who can be ignored or fired at will by the health secretary.
But a favorable ruling will not necessarily be an unqualified win for Obamacare advocates, since it would still leave the current administration with significant sway over those requirements going forward. The high court’s decision, expected by June, could also jeopardize or even erase many of the preventive care requirements set since Obamacare’s inception — allowing insurance companies to charge co-pays for tens of millions of people.
The Trump administration’s surprising defense of the Affordable Care Act, which President Donald Trump has long fought to repeal, seemed driven at least in part by a desire to maximize the authority of Trump’s Cabinet and avoid having a range of employees and advisers be subject to Senate confirmation….
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Trump surprised many in February when his administration adopted the Biden administration’s defense of the law. But while President Joe Biden’s Justice Department argued that eliminating the coverage requirements would harm the public’s health, Trump’s attorneys focused exclusively Monday on Kennedy’s supervisory power.
That argument has made progressive health advocates who filed amicus briefs in the case nervous — particularly given Kennedy’s views about vaccines and other preventive health care that contradict the medical community’s consensus, as well as his reported desire to overhaul other HHS advisory committees.
Still, public health advocates prefer the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force survive under Kennedy’s rule than be neutered or eliminated by the court…..
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