While the federal government would save money by not making CSR payments, it would face increased costs for tax credits that subsidize premiums for marketplace enrollees with incomes 100 to 400 percent of the poverty level, the Kaiser report said.
"CSRs, we're not doing that", Ryan told reporters a press conference with House GOP leadership. "That's something separate that the Administration does", Ryan said.
The payments amount to about Dollars 7 billion in fiscal year 2017 and help cover out-of-pocket medical costs for low-income Americans who purchase insurance on the individual insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
President Donald Trump has discussed the possibility of dropping the payments if they are not appropriated by Congress, injecting massive uncertainty into the Obamacare exchanges and insurers' plans for 2018.
"These payments were never authorized by Congress, were not included in previous spending bills, and the Obama administration made these payments in violation of the law", Graham said.
Future funding for the cost-sharing reductions remains uncertain amid a lawsuit filed by House Republicans challenging the legality of funding the payments without specific appropriation.
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The Foundation's new analysis examines potential financial implications if the government stops cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
The aide said Mulvaney told Pelosi the White House would end the payments without congressional action.
"The people who designed that bill own it".
While Congress could fund the CSR payments via a new appropriation, the White House now controls the CSR spending - though its authority to do so is under dispute in the court system.
On the other side of the Capitol Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor that Democrats should "take their own advice" about not including "poison pills" in order to reach a "good agreement that both sides can support".
Declining to include payments to insurers in the April must-pass spending bill increases the drama for a possible government shutdown at midnight Friday.
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