A bipartisan Senate effort to continue federal payments to insurers and avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets faces a dicey future.
The president, via a number of tweets, had threatened to halt payment towards the cost sharing subsidies to be had by insurance companies. "That is not presidential, that is not frankly what an adult does", Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday.
The poll, conducted July 28 and 29, surveyed more than 1,130 Americans, including 381 Republicans and 475 Democrats, following the collapse of health care reform in the Senate. "We didn't have 50 votes", McConnell said. His tweets came after the failure of health care legislation on a razor-thin margin of 51-49 on Friday.
Their drive to tear down Obama's law crashed with three disastrous Senate votes last week. Fifty-four percent said they approved of McCain's vote, while 40% said they disapproved.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, whose panel oversees government borrowing, said in a brief hallway interview that he does not expect bipartisan cooperation on the debt legislation.
In the House, 43 Democratic and Republican moderates proposed a plan that includes continuing federal payments that help insurers contain expenses for lower-earning customers.
"It's important to lay out the consequences of not paying these payments, because they're not what the president thinks they are", said Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Insurers in other states have also cited uncertainty around the law, and the subsidies, as a driver of rate increases for next year.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday night that "this coalition of attorneys general stands ready to defend these vital subsidies and the quality, affordable health care they insure for millions of families across the country".
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The insurance industry and lawmakers of both parties say blocking the money would prompt insurers to boost premiums for people buying individual policies and might induce companies to abandon some markets.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas did not specify what issues the two sides could address together.
Nonetheless, the day's comments collectively underscored the distance Senate Republicans are keeping from White House demands that they continue voting on repealing and replacing President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul.
The most recent successful tax reform effort was in 1986 and required a bipartisan push to overcome opposition from powerful interest groups.
But Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said he would hold bipartisan hearings next month with Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington state on how to fix the market for those who, unlike most Americans, do not have employer- or government-provided insurance. The Obama administration used its rule-making authority to set direct payments to insurers to help offset these costs.
Many Republicans have also questioned whether it is possible to make good on Trump's promises.
"We certainly should get some structural change to bring down premiums in exchange for that", said Sen.
While premiums have increased considerably over the previous year, what the Trump administration does next could have a large impact on pricing trends going forward. "And if many of them leave the market, it means the average health care risk of those that remain would increase, as would their premiums".
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