Daily on Healthcare: HHS’s Azar says he will enforce Obamacare if Idaho violates law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Law enforcement received the call at 11:05 a.m., and DC Fire and EMS arrived three minutes later.
40% : The Florida Republican tweeted that programs such as the Coast Guard and Border Patrol were slated for automatic cuts under sequestration, while the budget would spend $812 million in fiscal 2019 on risk corridor payments for insurers.
33% : President Trump's new Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, asked about Idaho's proposal to allow insurers to sidestep Obamacare's regulations, assured Congress on Wednesday that he is committed to enforcing Obamacare if a state violates the law.
32% : The guidance, released by the Department of Health and Human Services in January, said states don't have to comply with an Obama administration policy from April 2016 that warned restricting Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood could violate federal law.
31% : "It's unacceptable that programs that matter to #Florida could see cuts while the gov't continues to bail out private insurers to protect them from consequences of Obamacare," he tweeted Tuesday.
30% : Efforts to fully repeal Obamacare have stalled for 2018.
29% : Rubio added he has been fighting to "ensure we do not bail out Obamacare, but @POTUS budget includes $ for the Obamacare risk corridors."
27% : Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of coordinating with an "extremist" and "far-right" legal group in creating new guidance for states on defunding Planned Parenthood.
25% : Trump's new HHS secretary says he will enforce Obamacare if Idaho violates law.
22% : The group doesn't mince words, blaming the Democrats' shrinking lead on their inability to focus the public on Trump's economic policies, taxes and healthcare.

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