President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that could scale back enforcement of some provisions of the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, and analysts warned that shares of hospitals and Medicaid providers could face new pressure as fears over losing coverage grow.
President Trump wrote that government departments should “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation” of provisions from the sweeping healthcare law that present fiscal burdens on states, companies or individuals, Reuters reported. Kellyanne Conway, a senior advisor to the president, said in an interview yesterday that the new administration may not enforce a key provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring individual Americans to pay a fine for not having health insurance.