Trump's Assault on Obamacare Could Revive a Deal in Congress
A pair of lawmakers are nearing a bipartisan agreement on health care, but it’s not the one the president wants.
If there’s a kernel of bipartisan agreement in the polarizing politics of health care, it’s that President Trump’s decision to withhold subsidy payments to insurance companies that cover low-income Americans under Obamacare will jeopardize affordable health coverage for millions of consumers.
What’s not yet clear is how many people could be immediately affected, nor whether Congress has the willpower to step in and mitigate the damage.
“It’s one of the worst things the president could do to sabotage the Affordable Care Act,” declared Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer in words that summed up the view of the entire Democratic Party. A
