{"id":123595,"date":"2017-10-13T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123595"},"modified":"2017-10-13T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T09:45:15","slug":"trump-to-halt-subsidies-to-health-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/13\/trump-to-halt-subsidies-to-health-insurers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to halt subsidies to health insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120801\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120801\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: President Donald Trump (Photo: Donald J trump\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Donald Trump (Photo: Donald J trump\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump will \u201cimmediately\u201d halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services made the announcement in a statement late Thursday night. Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan and Medicare administrator Seema Verma say, \u201cWe will discontinue these payments immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, the White House said the government cannot legally continue to pay the so-called cost-sharing subsidies because they lack a formal authorization by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidies help lower copays and deductibles for people with modest incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The top two Democrats in Congress say the payments are legal and they warn Trump \u201cwill pay the price\u201d for disrupting coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump will \u201cimmediately\u201d halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[27633,27634,1058],"class_list":["post-123595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-american-news","category-news","tag-halt-subsidies","tag-health-insurers","tag-trump","mauthors-ricardo-alonso-zaldivar","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}