Goodness, someone finally gets it right – By Cutting Off Obamacare’s Insurer Subsidies, Trump Might Help More People Get Health Coverage – Hit & Run : Reason.com

But the premium hikes won’t directly affect most low-income people, however, because Obamacare’s subsidies increase with premiums, insulating those individuals from higher costs.Instead, this move is likely to raise premiums for people who earn too much to qualify for subsidies under Obamacare—which is to say, the people who have already been hit hardest by the law’s price hikes. The expansion of the subsidies, meanwhile, gets paid for by taxpayers, increasing the deficit by about $194 billion over the next decade.

But no one cares about the people who make more than 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. They don’t have any special interest group looking out for them.

Plus, what Trump did was right, it’s the rule of law and the power of the purse. Powerline’s John Hinderaker explains: ON OBAMACARE, TRUMP RESTORES THE RULE OF LAW

Judge Collyer ordered an end to the illegal federal payments, but stayed her order pending appeal. The current Department of Justice, having reviewed the legal issues, now has concluded that Judge Collyer was correct, and that the subsidies that the Obama administration paid were unconstitutional. Therefore, the president has now elected to follow the law, and has ended the improper payments.

John concludes…

If Congress wants to continue the subsidies, it can do so. Its appropriation, obviously, will make them constitutional. But regardless of what happens from now on, the Trump administration has acted admirably by refusing to go along with the unconstitutional regime that Barack Obama instituted.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Congress does appropriate the Cost Sharing Subsidies, heck it will even be bipartisan. However, most will be doing it under false pretenses that they poor are being screwed and they need to fix it. The poor are not being damaged by the lack of CSR subsidies, it’s those just over 400% of the Federal Poverty Level.