Collins urges Trump to back effort to restore health subsidy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — A key moderate Republican urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to back a bipartisan Senate effort to shield consumers from rising premiums after his abrupt decision to halt federal payments to insurers. Sen. Susan Collins called the move "disruptive" and an immediate threat to access to health care.

"What the president is doing is affecting people's access and the cost of health care right now," said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has cast pivotal votes on health care in the narrowly divided Senate. "This is not a bailout of the insurers. What this money is used for is to help low-income people afford their deductibles and their co-pays."

"Congress needs to step in and I hope that the president will take a look at what we're doing," she added.

Her comments reflected an increasing focus Sunday on the bipartisan Senate effort led by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., to at least temporarily reinstate the payments to avoid immediate turmoil in the insurance market, even as Trump signaled he wouldn't back a deal without getting something he wants in return.

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How about Congress give him a nicer cell when he's sent to prison?

[Iliyah]

1. OK, but I read you are voting for the tax reform

[BigmanPigman]

2. I have a feeling that her male colleagues don't share her opinion.

She is too reasonable for them to listen to her. They will speak up about as loudly as they did when Corker spoke up last week.

[lindysalsagal]

3. We tried appeasement in the 30's. Sociopaths don't bargain. They destroy.

At this point, I see no other way to reach the Congress: throw millions off healthcare, crush the economy.

The deploreables might believe he's wrong when their doctors hand them the bills they can't pay.