{"id":232095,"date":"2025-07-02T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232095\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:31:08","slug":"mayors-sue-over-trumps-efforts-to-restrict-obamacare-signups-us-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232095\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors sue over Trump\u2019s efforts to restrict Obamacare signups | US healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Trump administration<\/a> rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable Care Act\u2019s health care coverage are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors around the country.<\/p>\n

The rules, rolled out last month, reverse a Biden-era effort to expand access to the Affordable Care Act\u2019s health insurance, commonly called \u201cObamacare\u201d or the ACA. The previous Democratic administration expanded the enrollment window for the coverage, which led to record enrollment.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rolled out a series of new restrictions for Obamacare late last month, just as Congress was weighing a major bill that will decrease enrollment in the health care program that Donald Trump has scorned for years. As many as 2 million people \u2013 nearly 10% \u2013 are expected to lose coverage from the health department\u2019s new rules.<\/p>\n

The mayors of Baltimore, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, sued the federal health department on Tuesday over the rules, saying they will result in more uninsured residents and overburden city services.<\/p>\n

\u201cCloaked in the pretense of government efficiency and fraud prevention, the 2025 Rule creates numerous barriers to affordable insurance coverage, negating the purpose of the ACA to extend affordable health coverage to all Americans, and instead increasing the population of underinsured and uninsured Americans,\u201d the filing alleges.<\/p>\n

Two liberal advocacy groups \u2013 Doctors for America and Main Street Alliance \u2013 joined in on the complaint.<\/p>\n

The federal health department announced a series of changes late last month to the ACA. It will shorten the enrollment period for the federal marketplace by a month, limiting it to 1 November to 15 December in 2026. Income verification checks will become more stringent and a $5 fee will be tacked on for some people who automatically re-enroll in a free plan.<\/p>\n

Insurers will also be able to deny coverage to people who have not paid their premiums on past plans. The rules also bar roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the US as children from signing up for the coverage.<\/p>\n

The new rules \u201csafeguard the future of the marketplace\u201d, and will lower premiums for those who remain in the program, HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rule closes loopholes, strengthens oversight, and ensures taxpayer subsidies go to those who are truly eligible \u2013 that\u2019s not controversial, it\u2019s common sense,\u201d Nixon said.<\/p>\n

But the three mayors argue that the polices were introduced without an adequate public comment period on the policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis unlawful rule will force families off their health insurance and raise costs on millions of Americans. This does nothing to help people and instead harms Americans\u2019 health and safety across our country,\u201d said Skye Perryman, the president of Democracy Forward, which is representing the coalition of plaintiffs in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit does not challenge the Trump administration\u2019s restriction on immigrants signing up for the coverage.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration saw gains in Obamacare enrollment as a major success of the Democratic president\u2019s term, noting that a record 24 million people signed up for the coverage, thanks to generous tax breaks offered through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n

But the program has been a target of Trump, who has said it is riddled with problems that make the coverage unaffordable for many without large subsidies. Enrollment in the program dipped during his first term in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-232095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114783891255656924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}