How Trump can keep the drive to repeal Obamacare alive through executive action

There's no doubt about it - last week's failure to pass the American Health Care Act was a painful setback in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare, wrote Sally Pipes in the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog.

But Obamacare's critics need not give up. There are plenty of executive actions the Trump administration could take to roll back the Affordable Care Act. First among them should be refusing to fund Obamacare's "cost-sharing reduction" subsidies - federal dollars that reimburse insurance companies for covering many of the out-of-pocket costs of low-income exchange enrollees.

These reimbursements are expensive - some $7 billion a year. But they're also illegal, she states.