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CBO will report on impact of Trump's Obamacare sabotage
Daily KosThis likely will put more pressure on congressional Republicans to face down popular vote loser Donald Trump and work with Democrats to stabilize Obamacare's insurance markets—the Congressional Budget Office is about to weigh in on what will happen if Trump stops cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
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. […]
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.
