Politico March 11, 2025
By Kelly Hooper and Chelsea Cirruzzo

With Ben Leonard

OBAMACARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS — The Trump administration released its first major health regulation Monday, proposing policies that would limit Obamacare enrollment, Chelsea and POLITICO’s Robert King report.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed rule, which sets 2026 coverage year policies for the Affordable Care Act, would shorten the annual enrollment period for Obamacare from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15. The previous period stretched to Jan. 15.

The rule would also scrap a Biden-era regulation cleared last year that allowed recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — which lets young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children remain in the country — to enroll in Obamacare. The...

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