Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Health care, business groups want Congress to pay insurers

September 05, 2017 at 06:57PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of powerful health industry and business groups is asking senators to finance federal subsidies to insurers for at least two years.

The letter the organizations sent Tuesday is a direct challenge to President Donald Trump.

As part of his effort to erase the Obama health care law, Trump has threatened to halt the payments, which he calls bailouts.

Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander of Tennessee hopes to craft a bipartisan bill extending the subsidies for a year.

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