Don’t blame Trump for Obamacare’s failures

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This year, premiums for mid-level “silver” plans on the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange rose 32 percent. President Trump deserves the lion’s share of the blame for this surge – at least according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

The left-leaning think tank claims that uncertainty about the Trump administration’s “enforcement of the law’s components, cessation of federal [subsidies to insurers], and administrative policy changes expected to reduce enrollment” forced insurers to pre-emptively hike premiums.

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