Trump's administration is trying to completely cancel Obamacare

The Trump administration provided its first argument in favor of a total repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

The government claims that the so-called “individual mandate” (compulsory health insurance), which requires insurance from Americans, was unconstitutional, and therefore the rest of the law also needs to be repealed, even if the government “can support some specific provisions as a political issue”.

When filing the application, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt acknowledged that the administration had previously argued that certain parts of the law could remain in force even if compulsory health insurance would be canceled.

However, the administration later concluded that rewriting the statute by “choosing which provisions should be invalidated” would violate the role of Congress, and “correct course” for the courts would mean the complete abolition of the law.

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The summary was filed with the Conservative 5 US Circuit Court of Appeals, which will consider the arguments in July and, possibly, consider the case in the Supreme Court. He can finally decide the fate of the law.

If the law is repealed, it will be a major victory for President Donald Trump, who is in office trying to erase from the face of the earth, the legislative achievement of the Obama administration.

Last month, the president tweeted that Republicans are developing a “really great” health plan with “much lower insurance premiums” than Obamacare, and that the voting will take place “right after” the election.

The new position has caused criticism from supporters of the law, as well as some opponents.

“The Justice Department ignored its own long-standing rules and practices by refusing to uphold federal law and did not urge the court to dismiss this case in the first place,” said Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called the administration's brief “heartless and wrong.”

“This action only proves that President Trump and his Justice Department are choosing to prioritize political considerations rather than protect our health care law, which in turn protects 133 million Americans by providing health insurance coverage to tens of millions more and making prescription drugs cheaper for millions of seniors.” people,” Schumer said in a statement. “President Trump wants to take all this away from the American people by increasing health care costs and leaving millions of people without insurance.”

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, also responded to the news.

“There is no viable legal argument or moral defense to the devastation the Trump administration is asking the court to inflict on American health care,” she said in a statement. The Trump Administration owes the American people an answer to why it is trying to take away insurance for pre-existing conditions and causing enormous suffering to families across America.”

The House of Representatives, headed by Democrats, also protects the law.

Recall that "some of the senior presidential advisers" insisted that the administration join the litigation in texaschallenging the constitutionality of Obama’s law (although others, including Attorney General Bill Barr, were opposed).

If ObamaCare is abolished, then by 2026, about 32 million people will be left without health insurance, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office of 2017. Average premiums can also increase dramatically as a result of the cancellation of this program.

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