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Speaker 1: to repeal Obamacare after President Donald Trump signed an executive
Speaker 1: order to ease several provisions of the law. They speak
Speaker 1: with Alden Bianchi, a member at mince Levin, and Abbey Gluck,
Speaker 1: faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and
Speaker 1: Policy at Yale University. Abbey can the administration refused to
Speaker 1: enforce the two mandates to purchase insurance and to have
Speaker 1: employers provide insurance if they have fifty or more employees.
Speaker 1: The executive order makes right clear that the agencies can
Speaker 1: only act to the extent authorized by law. UM. With
Speaker 1: respect to the individual mandate, the requirement that everybody has
Speaker 1: to get themselves insured or pay attacks a very very
Speaker 1: controversial requirement under the Affordable Care Act UM. As a
Speaker 1: legal matter, it's very unlikely that jump administration could use
Speaker 1: that executive order the wholesale abandoned the individual mandate, that
Speaker 1: would not be permitted consistent with the law as the
Speaker 1: executive order requires. They could extend some of the hardship
Speaker 1: exemptions that were offered by the Obama administration, but the
Speaker 1: exception can swallow the rule. But also just know that
Speaker 1: Tom Price, the HHS nominee, and his confirmation hearing, also
Speaker 1: alluded to the idea that they were not going to
Speaker 1: use that executive order the wholesale stop enforcing the individual
Speaker 1: mandate all then, what do you make of Tom Price's
Speaker 1: testimony where Trump's choice for Health secretary repeatedly refused to
Speaker 1: promise that no Americans will be worse off under Trump's
Speaker 1: executive order to ease provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 1: The question is is how does the how does replace
Speaker 1: go forward? And I think Representative Price has been been
Speaker 1: very cryptic in any numbers. We have no idea or
Speaker 1: very little idea from his from his his public statements
Speaker 1: and testimony exactly what he's going to do. But we
Speaker 1: do have a comprehensive bill that he had two comprehensive
Speaker 1: bills one a pure repeal bill on the reconciliation and
Speaker 1: the other repeal and replace that Tom that Tom Price
Speaker 1: either offered authored or as a co author. So we
Speaker 1: so we have his policy prescriptions, so we know, I
Speaker 1: think we know what he wants to do and and
Speaker 1: and those prescriptions are very similar to the prescriptions in
Speaker 1: in five other major Republican proposals. So I think he's uh,
Speaker 1: we we pretty much know where he's going to go.
Speaker 1: It's all then, Bianchi. Remember at mince Levin and Abbey Luck,
Speaker 1: Faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and
Speaker 1: Policy at Yale University, speaking with Bloomberg Law host Jun Grosso.
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