{"id":66096,"date":"2017-10-14T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastcountytoday.net\/?p=66096"},"modified":"2017-10-14T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:58:17","slug":"california-files-lawsuit-to-defend-americans-health-care-against-trumps-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastcountytoday.net\/california-files-lawsuit-to-defend-americans-health-care-against-trumps-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"California Files Lawsuit To Defend Americans&#8217; Health Care Against Trump\u2019s Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 15.6pt;\" align=\"center\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">Trump Administration\u2019s abrupt decision to halt healthcare subsidies made possible by the Affordable Care Act will increase health care costs for Californians<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">SACRAMENTO<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 18\u00a0states and the District of Columbia in filing a\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0in the\u00a0Northern District of California\u00a0against the Trump Administration\u2019s abrupt decision to\u00a0stop making\u00a0healthcare subsidy payments\u00a0required by the federal Affordable Care Act. That harsh action violates the law and\u00a0will lead to higher\u00a0costs. It puts health coverage for\u00a0over 6 million\u00a0Americans at risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">&#8220;In one week, the Trump\u00a0Administration has re-opened the door to &#8216;junk&#8217; health insurance plans and cut off access to contraception for millions of women. Now they&#8217;re\u00a0refusing to comply with federal law in a way that will hike\u00a0the cost of\u00a0care for millions of Americans by\u00a0withholding\u00a0critical\u00a0subsidies\u00a0that make care more affordable,\u201d\u00a0<b>said Attorney General Becerra<\/b>.\u00a0\u201cTaking\u00a0these\u00a0legally required\u00a0subsidies away from working families&#8217; health plans and forcing them to choose between paying rent or their medical bills is completely reckless. This is\u00a0sabotage, plain and simple. I and many of my attorney general colleagues will fight vigorously to ensure Californians and all Americans as taxpayers\u00a0receive\u00a0the healthcare the law provides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">The\u00a0Affordable Care Act\u2019s\u00a0mandatory\u00a0cost-sharing\u00a0reduction payments\u00a0help working families access more affordable healthcare coverage by helping individuals with incomes between $11,880 and $29,700 enroll in plans with lower deductibles, copayments or coinsurance, reducing\u00a0their\u00a0out-of-pocket costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">Joining today\u2019s filing are the Attorneys General of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Oregon, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington, Iowa, and the District of Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #52585f;\">A copy of the complaint, as well as a fact sheet on the complaint, is attached to the electronic version of this release at\u00a0<a href=\"oag.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oag.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Administration\u2019s abrupt decision to halt healthcare subsidies made possible by the Affordable Care Act&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[3122,17812,11838],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California Files Lawsuit To Defend Americans&#039; Health Care Against Trump\u2019s Sabotage - East County Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eastcountytoday.net\/california-files-lawsuit-to-defend-americans-health-care-against-trumps-sabotage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Files Lawsuit To Defend Americans&#039; 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