Michael Hiltzik: Courts hammer Trump for sabotaging Obamacare, in rulings that could cost the Treasury billions
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Feb 20, 2019
4 minutes
Legal experts thought that one of President Trump's cruder attacks on the Affordable Care Act would come back to bite him once the courts took a crack at it.
Court rulings have flooded in over the last few weeks, and the experts are right. The cost to the government could be $12 billion a year, payable to health insurers who were cheated by Trump's action. That's not chump change. As Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan wrote this week, "Insurers could buy us a damn border wall every year with that money."
The most recent beneficiary of a court judgment is the Los
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