Amid ongoing uncertainty about President Trump’s will-he-or-won’t he dance regarding Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office announced Friday that they will release a report next week on the impact of cutting off those payments.
A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation published earlier this week found that the mere threat from the president to terminate the multi-billion dollar payments to insurers, which subsidize their coverage of people with severe health needs, is already pushing insurers to hike their rates by double digits.
Also this week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that they will push back the August deadline for insurers to file their rates for 2018 until early September, which some are taking as an ominous sign that Trump does intend to cut off the CSR payments.
“the mere threat…is already pushing insurers to hike their rates by double digits.”
Working as intended.
Calls from Rs to disband the CBO in 3… 2… 1…
In the final report, the CBO concluded “it would cost just a tiny bit more than we’ll save with the recent 700 diplomats Putin generously fired.”
Thanks, Obama. All your fault for making Trump try to ruin what you achieved. You should have predicted his crazy obsession.
Can’t a man violate his oath to faithfully execute the laws in peace?! Jesus, these g-ddamned libtard deep staters!