http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/trump-obamacare-executive-order/index.html
By: Tami Luhby and Kevin Liptak
October 12, 2017
President Trump has recently signed the "Executive Order Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition" also know as the "Trumpcare" Executive Order, which orders various governmental agencies to find ways to modify the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). One of these "governmental agencies" is the Labor Department, they will begin research on methods of allowing small businesses and groups of individuals to join together and buy nationwide association health plans, thereby promoting lower healthcare. The order will also allow Americans to purchase healthcare that does not comply with Obamacare and broadens the ability for employers to give their workers money to by their own healthcare.
While most of these provisions do seem appealing, critics have identified numerous drawbacks of the executive order. The order will free association health plans from various Obamacare regulations, thus resulting in lower costs but inferior benefits. This will result in younger and healthier people leaving Obamacare and skyrocketing premiums for for those that remain in Obamacare.
As a result, many are urging the president to work with congress instead of forcing changes through executive orders. In fact the senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer tweeted that Trump "is using a wrecking ball to singlehandedly rip apart & sabotage our healthcare system" referring to his executive order. This event thus calls into question the effectiveness and sheer power that executive orders give a president.
Questions:
1. Is Trump's use of executive orders to dismantle Obamacare a fair method to push his agenda?
2. Are executive orders too powerful in their ability to bypass congress?
3. Do Trump's new policies shift America's healthcare system in a positive direction?
1. Trump is starting to face the reality of his failure to carry out his campaign promises. Because of this, he uses executive orders to dismantle Obamacare because if not, he will lose the last hope of his supporters. He is pushing his agenda to fill his poorly made campaign promises.
ReplyDeleteNo, it was a given as a sense of social security. People had just got set up which was a long process of trial and error for the Obama Administration. Are executive orders too powerful in their ability to bypass congress? Well in circumstances where the time calls for an executive order, like war , or a breach in national security.
ReplyDeleteIn a economic sense for the right conditions or population it is a positive, but we are declining in welfare and what should be a human right (receive healthcare).
Trump's use of the executive order to dismantle Obamacare is fair because it is what he promised in his campaign, and the power of making executive orders can get that done. I feel that executive orders are not too powerful in their ability to bypass congress because they allow the president to immediately accomplish something, whereas it would take much longer to go through Congress. Additionally, Congress can also repeal the act later through amendments or SCOTUS can rule it unconstitutional.
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