Where Obamacare Stands Now

While the White House press corps focuses on how many people showed up on Inauguration Day, President Trump’s first executive order is already weakening Obamacare in preparation for the repeal -and-replace effort in Congress in the coming weeks.

The order instructs all relevant agencies, primarily the Department of Health and Human Services, to “ease the burden” of Obamacare. If that sounds vague, that’s exactly how it was intended.

Health-care policy expert Merrill Matthews of the Institute for Policy Innovation says the lack of specifics means a variety of actions can be taken to protect patients.

“Departments and agencies with control over Obamacare under the Affordable Care Act ‘shall exercise all discretion and authority available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions or delay the implementation of any provision in the act,'” Matthews told WND and Radio America.

“They can also relieve the states of cost, fee, tax, penalty or regulatory burdens on individuals, families, health care providers, health insurers, patients, recipients and so forth and so on,” he said.

So what does all that mean? http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/where-obamacare-stands-now/