{"id":12102,"date":"2018-11-30T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12102"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:19:58","slug":"is-trump-pushing-health-insurance-innovation-or-an-aca-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12102","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Pushing Health Insurance Innovation Or An ACA Rollback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>On his first day in office, as part of his mission to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump signed an\u00a0order\u00a0promising to give states flexibility \u201cto create a more free and open healthcare market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration on Thursday released an\u00a0official set of examples\u00a0to help states flex these powers.<\/p>\n<p>It is intended to roll back key elements of Obama-era requirements, which were designed to promote enrollment in ACA plans that cover a broad range of medical needs and meet uniform national standards. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/is-trump-pushing-health-insurance-innovation-or-an-aca-rollback\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=67945195&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OgpkmueZMREcaS2iBMuNfBYDzEGh5J_TwTQId4yqfxx9lP1f8TM0ieVHGZJ7qr1pW4HudOdAmbG1GrgewAMz5HvbqEA&amp;_hsmi=67945195\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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