President Donald Trump gave his blessing to a bipartisan health-care bill to pay the same insurance subsidies that the president said he'd halt last week, according to a Republican senator working on the package.
Last Thursday, Trump said he would stop making Obamacare's "cost-sharing reduction" payments, which go to health insurers in the Affordable Care Act and help lower-income people afford co-payments and other cost-sharing, so that they can see a doctor or pick up a prescription.
Trump on Monday called the subsidies "a payoff, and it's a disgrace." Yet a key lawmaker said Monday that the president urged him to take legislative steps to pay them, with some changes. Republican Senator Lamar Alexander said Monday that he spoke with Trump about a bill that includes the subsidies, and got Trump's blessing.
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