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Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
imageUnraveling Obamacare will be easier than fixing the nation's insurance problems. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump has issued the first of what promises to be a series of health insurance executive orders aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

It instructs the government to essentially exempt small businesses and potentially...

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