The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
October 16, 2017

States Sue over President's Move to Destroy Affordable Care Act
---------------------------------------------------------------

Attorneys general from 19 U.S. states are suing the federal government,
after President Trump said he would cut off billions of dollars in
federal subsidies to insurance companies to help cover low-income
people's healthcare plans. Experts say ending the subsidies will
dramatically increase insurance premiums and could unravel the
healthcare market. This is New York state Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: "His effort to gut these subsidies
with no warning-or even a plan to contain the fallout-is breathtakingly
reckless. He has failed twice in efforts to legislatively repeal and
replace the Affordable Care Act. This is an effort simply to blow up the
system. We will not allow President Trump to use New York families as
political pawns in his dangerous, partisan campaign to sabotage our
healthcare system."



.