The Justice Department brief filed on May 1 amounts to the Trump administration picking and choosing what parts of the Affordable Care Act should stay in place and also suggests it does not understand the law, experts told Healio Primary Care Today.

“The administration wants to keep the components of the law that will help it the most and remove the components that help the American people the most,” Nancy Nielsen, MD, PhD, a former senior advisor at CMS while Barack Obama was president, who is now the senior associate dean for Health Policy at the University at Buffalo, said in an interview.