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    The Trump administration finds another way to throw sand in Obamacare's gears, at patients' expense

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jul 09, 2018 4 minutes

    It has now become clear that Trump officials' approach to the Affordable Care Act is to sit in conference and look for new ways to sabotage the law with minimal rationale and just for the hell of it. And by "hell," we mean in ways that will impose new costs on premium payers.

    The latest example emerged over the weekend, when the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was suspending an ACA program known as risk-adjustment.

    At stake is $10.4 billion in payments due ACA insurers for the 2017 plan year and an undetermined amount for this year. That may not mean a lot in the aggregate,

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