HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Democrats plan to tie money promised to health insurers to offset Obamacare costs to the coming showdown over keeping the government running, a Democratic source said, following a threat from President Donald Trump Wednesday [4-12-17].
The promise from Democrats comes a day after Trump told the Wall Street Journal he may stop “cost-sharing reduction” payments to health insurers as a tactic to bring Democrats to the negotiating table. The payments are used to reduce health care costs under Obamacare for low-income people.
‘I don’t want people to get hurt,’ Trump said in the interview. ‘What I think should happen — and will happen — is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.’ “
-Tom LoBianco and Sunlen Serfaty, “Dems tying health insurance backing to government shutdown standoff,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 13, 2017 5:35pm