Trump Extorted Insurers to Make Them Support Health-Care Bill
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trump-extorted-insurers-to-support-health-care-bill.html
Noam Levey reports an example of this already happening. The thrust of Leveys story is focused on the belief by insurers that uncertainty fostered by the Trump administration is killing health-care exchanges. Deep in the piece, Levey describes a Trump staffer threatening to withhold cost-sharing-reduction payments, called CSR, which are a vital part of making individual insurance profitable.
At one recent meeting, Seema Verma, whom Trump picked to oversee the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, stunned insurance industry officials by suggesting a bargain: The administration would fund the CSRs if insurers supported the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, reports Levey.
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Dirty corrupt bastard Trump is killing Obamacare behind the scenes with threats to the insurance industry. Isn't this abuse of power that can be added to the impeachment. I am so angry about this