White House Watch: Is There Now a Bipartisan Effort to SAVE Obamacare?

If there’s a legislative fix on the way for the scrapped cost-sharing payments to insurance companies under Obamacare, President Trump seems to be behind it. Trump last week announced he would end reimbursements to insurers selling discounted policies to low-income customers, which the administration has argued haven’t been properly appropriated by Congress. Shortly after it was first reported on Tuesday that Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray had reached a deal on funding these reimbursements, the president was asked about whether the White House had been involved in crafting this fix.

“Yes, we have been involved,” Trump said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference at the White House.