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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry if this was posted but Bannon said at the "Values Summit" that the point of cutting off CSRs was to intentionally blow up the insurance markets (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bannon-admits-it)

Craig Garthwaite (a Republican health care economist critical if the ACA) said the same thing on twitter-- doing it two weeks before enrollment means it was intentional sabotage of the insurance markets.

It just boggles my mind that this Administration would be so blinded by its hate of anything Obama-related that it would intentionally hurt Americans who need individual insurance.[/quote]

What's happening today is perfect strangers are being intentionally hurt by the artificial consequences of Obamacare, which are crazy-high premiums and a mandate that you will give up a bigger and bigger part of your pay check for them.

Stop taking what Trump does personally. For every person you see hurt by him, he's trying to alleviate the "hurt" of another (much as Obama did - I'm going to levy a tax on person A for the benefit of person B).

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Look, we can have a discussion about whether his plan to make it easier for people to set up new group insurance is a good idea or a bad one, because if it works it will let healthy people band together and get cheaper insurance and leave less healthy people with a spiral of increasing premiums. That's a case where there are winners and losers and you can decide if you want to undermine the insurance market to benefit healthy people or not.

But there are exactly zero ways cutting off CSRs benefits anyone. The whole point is Trump is NOT trying to alleviate anyone's problem. This only increases premiums and it also increases federal budget outlays. So don't tell me how Obamacare is hurting people because whoever is hurting now from Obamacare will only be hurt more

Also for the record I have group insurance so personally I am unaffected by this but I am not so blind or ignorant as to think he can play a game of signalling against Obamacare that has no consquences for real people. 
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