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Trump administration takes another swipe at ‘Obamacare’

The Trump administration is freezing payments under an “Obamacare” program that protects insurers with sicker patients from financial losses, a move expected to add to premium increases next year. At stake are billions in payments to insurers with sicker customers. The latest administration action could disrupt the Affordable Care Act, the health care law that has withstood President Donald Trump’s efforts to completely repeal it. …read more […]

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U.S.-North Korea Talks Stumble as Pyongyang Knocks Pompeo Effort

North Korea’s criticism of the talks in Pyongyang fueled further doubts about whether Trump will ever achieve his goal of “compete denuclearization,” much less on the timeline of one to 2-1/2 years set out by various administration officials. “The U.S. side came up only with its unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman said in statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency a few hours after Pompeo’s departure. …read more […]