--- title: Trump Administration Decides to Keep a Key Part of Obamacare in Place description: The Trump administration is reportedly throwing Obamacare a lifeline, at least for 2018. authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Economy and Politics - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2017-04-11T14:50:01.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T05:38:21.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - Affordable Care Act - Healthcare - Obamacare word_count: 265 canonical: https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,, Monday, April 10, 2017.](https://img.money.com/2017/04/170411-donald-trump-healthcare.jpg?crop=0px%2C18px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85) *President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,, Monday, April 10, 2017.* The Trump administration might be throwing Obamacare a lifeline, at least for 2018. The *New York Times* [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/affordable-care-act-trump-subsidies.html?referer=https://t.co/QCjGJKJXOi&_r=0) that cost-sharing subsidies paid to insurers, which reduce out-of-pocket costs for the poorest customers, will remain in place - for now. Those subsidies are the subject of a 2014 lawsuit filed against the Obama administration by the House Republicans, who argue that the payment of roughly $7 billion a year to insurance companies to help balance out the shared costs is unconstitutional. The Trump Administration isn't taking those subsidies away for the moment. The Department of Health and Human Services told the *Times*, “the precedent is that while the lawsuit is being litigated, the cost-sharing subsidies will be funded. It would be fair for you to report that there has been no policy change in the current administration.” While Congress [hasn't passed a replacement plan](https://money.com/obamacare-trump-administrations-nuclear-option/) for the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration have several options to weaken the existing system. The most lethal option is to end those cost-sharing subsidies to insurers, which are different from the tax-break subsidies individual consumers on the health-care exchanges receive to pay for their premiums each month. But they are just as critical to the marketplace's success. If those subsidies end, insurers would likely leave the ACA exchanges in higher numbers than they already are, making the individual market even more unstable and uncompetitive. Still, that isn't stopping some insurance companies from withdrawing already, because of high costs and the uncertainty surrounding the law's future. Already, there are instances of companies exiting, [leaving some counties](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/health/humana-plans-to-pull-out-of-obamacares-insurance-exchanges.html) with [increasingly few](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/iowa-obamacare-market-gets-hit-as-aetna-says-it-will-drop-out-in-2018.html) plan options. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Health Care", "item": "https://money.com/health-care/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Trump Administration Decides to Keep a Key Part of Obamacare in Place" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/", "name": "Trump Administration Decides to Keep a Key Part of Obamacare in Place", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-04-11T14:50:01.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:38:21.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Trump Administration Decides to Keep a Key Part of Obamacare in Place", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/04/170411-donald-trump-healthcare.jpg?crop=0px%2C18px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "170411-donald-trump-healthcare" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alicia Adamczyk", "url": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2016/01/alicia-headshot-2.jpg?quality=85&w=640&h=640&crop=1", "email": "alicia.adamczyk@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-04-11T14:50:01.000Z", "description": "The Trump administration is reportedly throwing Obamacare a lifeline, at least for 2018.", "abstract": "The Trump administration is reportedly throwing Obamacare a lifeline, at least for 2018.", "@id": "https://money.com/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:38:21.000Z", "wordCount": 265, "keywords": [ "Affordable Care Act", "Healthcare", "Obamacare" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Political economy", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Health care", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care" ] } ] } ] } ```