Trump said to want bipartisan Senate Obamacare deal

[DonViejo]

By JENNIFER HABERKORN 10/16/2017 07:22 PM EDT

President Donald Trump urged Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander to seek out an Obamacare deal with Democrats — encouragement that might help sway Republicans who are skeptical of a bipartisan agreement.

Alexander said Trump told him by phone Oct. 14 he’d like to see a bill that funds the Obamacare cost-sharing subsidies that he abruptly cut off last week. In return, he wants to see “meaningful flexibility for the states in providing more choices,” Alexander (R-Tenn.) said. “He said he wanted to make sure that in this interim period while we’re still arguing about the long-term direction of health care, that people aren’t hurt — those were his words,” Alexander said of Trump.

Alexander, the chairman of the Senate health Committee, has been working with ranking Democrat Patty Murray for weeks on an Obamacare stabilization bill with similar parameters. But the talks had stalled over how to define state flexibility: Republicans want to let states modify their health systems under Obamacare, and Democrats are wary of anything that could unwind any of the consumer protections in the law.

The discussions sped up over the weekend after the White House on Oct. 12 said Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction payments would end as soon as next week, according to Republican and Democratic sources. The cost-sharing program, which reimburses insurers to help low-income people pay out-of-pocket health costs, was the centerpiece of a 2014 lawsuit by House Republicans that contended the payments were illegal because they had not been authorized by Congress.

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[Girard442]

1. Great. Just great.

Now I need a new cup of coffee and a keyboard too.

[DetlefK]

2. Translation: Trump took a hostage and now he wants to negotiate.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[Submariner]

3. The Art of the Fucking Deal

Do it my way or take the blame for ACA failure. It's a set up.

The Democrats need to tell this racist POS to fuck off.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep.

[global1]

6. He's Realizing He's Going To Take The Blame For Blowing Up Healhtcare Insurance....

and he's looking for the Dems to save him now. He and the Repugs now own this. This is no longer ACA or Obamacare. This is Trumpcare. He's looking a real 'disaster' down the barrel. He thinks he's clever - but he's screwed up and screwed up big on this and the Repugs just go along with his every stupid move.

The MSM needs to stop using the terms 'ACA' amd 'Obamacare' and they need to begin hanging the 'Trumpcare' moniker on this.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. He goes and signs Executive Orders causing serious issues w/ACA

and now he wants Democrats to work with Republicans to solve them?

I.....just can't

[Joe941]

8. As much as I'd like to say the GOP will take the blame for the failure of ACA...

with a name like Obamacare I don't think that is going to happen. We need to be very careful how we handle the destruction of the ACA.

[Demsrule86]

9. No...he will be blamed everyone knows it was sabotage...and we run on it in 2018.

We should not weaken the ACA in order to save the GOP from Trump's executive order. Either way people are screwed.

[Joe941]

11. Everyone here knows it, but the average person I'm not so sure.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. But Trump said that "Obamacare" is gone and not to be mentioned any longer

[MineralMan]

10. Instead, Let's Have a Bipartisan Deal to Throw the Bum Out!

That's the bipartisan action I want. Impeachment and removal.

Do it, Congress! Do it now!