Verma Warned Against Trump Administration's Proposed Changes To ACA

By Ariel Cohen / June 14, 2019 at 3:35 PM
CMS Administrator Seema Verma cautioned the Trump administration against finalizing proposed policies that could undermine the Affordable Care Act, including banning silver-loading, cutting ACA subsidies and ending auto reenrollment, according to an internal agency memo. Despite Verma’s warning, the Trump administration moved to finalize changes to subsidies but has not yet acted on the other two proposals. In the memo , written last August and provided to House Democrats as part of an oversight probe, Verma argued that, were the...


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