Trump administration loosens restrictions on ObamaCare waivers

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4. This hurts the ACA, I guess, but helps people.

Particularly people who don't need coverage for a pre-existing condition (either they don't have one, or don't need ins. for one...like arthritis, which often doesn't require any medical treatment).

There is a group of people in the country, generally older and healthy, who can't get insurance or have to buy ins. from only one available company, and have trouble because it's so expensive and has a very narrow list of providers. So these people really were painted into a corner and have a real problem. In some areas, there are no ACA providers at all.

So this helps those people, and that's good. It's always good to help people be able to get health care that they want and can afford. I'm not sure of the effect on the ACA, but it's not good, I guess. OTOH, these people buying the new policies won't be using taxpayer dollars for subsidies, so the money saved from that could be used for the ACA in other ways, I would think. It would have been better if the ACA could have been fixed to help this group of people, but we don't have that option at this time.