Trump May End Obamacare Insurance Requirement, Conway Says

Bloomberg reports:

The Trump administration may stop enforcing the Obamacare requirement that most Americans carry health insurance, even before Congress repeals the law, Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to the new president, said in interviews broadcast on Sunday.

Such a move would take the teeth out of former President Barack Obama’s health-care law and could destabilize insurance markets, analysts say. It was not clear from Conway’s remarks whether President Donald Trump would try to use his executive authority to make the change, which would be much faster than writing new regulations or waiting on lawmakers.

"What President Trump is doing is, he wants to get rid of that Obamacare penalty almost immediately, because that is something that is really strangling a lot of Americans, to have to pay a penalty for not buying government-run health insurance," Conway, whose title is counselor to the president, said Sunday on ABC News’s "This Week"

When host George Stephanopoulos asked her if Trump would "stop enforcing that mandate," Conway responded: "He may."

When your statist scheme relies on someone at the top of the executive branch of government: you better control the executive branch of government.