The Latest: White House about-face on payments to insurers
The
That's a reversal for President
Both House Minority Leader
The current spending bill expires at midnight on Friday.
The so-called cost-sharing payments help lower-income people with out-of-pocket medical expenses, but Trump had threatened to withhold them as leverage. That sparked a fierce backlash among
Pelosi and
A leader of House Republican moderates is suggesting a proposal to revamp the mired
Dent is a leader of the moderate
Another head of that group is
Many conservatives are endorsing that proposal. Dent calls it "an exercise in blame-shifting."
The top House Democrat is accusing the Trump administration of "cruelly threatening to raise health premiums" for millions as a disagreement about payments to insurers under the health care law jolted talks on a bill to keep the government open.
Minority Leader
Pelosi issued a statement a day after meeting with
Pelosi and
Groups representing more than a half million clinicians are writing
Doctors say the recent compromises among Republican hardliners and party moderates would allow insurers to deny treatment to patients struggling with addiction and make health care more expensive for older adults. The compromise would let states opt out of requirements in the Obama-era health care law.
Wednesday's letter to House Speaker
The groups say
The latest Republican health care proposal would exempt members of
The plan to revive the overall health care bill is a measure from Rep.
Under the plan, states could get federal waivers to the current law's requirements that insurers charge seriously ill and healthy customers the same premiums, and that they cover specified services like maternity care.
In a statement Wednesday, MacArthur's office says the congressman doesn't believe lawmakers should get special treatment and they are working on separate legislation to address it.
The conservative
In a statement on Wednesday, the 40 or so hard-liner members who helped scuttle the earlier bill announced their support for the plan crafted by New Jersey Rep.
While the endorsement is a boost for the effort, some 50 moderate
The group said the new proposal will give states flexibility — and while it isn't a full repeal of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, they are prepared to support it.
The proposed changes would let states get federal waivers to some coverage requirements Obama's law imposed on insurers, such as providing basic services such as maternity and newborn care, and preventive and wellness visits.
The
Budget director
Pelosi is insisting that the cost-sharing payments be addressed in the legislation. President
Coal-state lawmakers say
Democratic Sen.
House Republican leaders have been pushing a 20-month health care extension, but Capito and Manchin said they were optimistic House Speaker
The plan does not address pension benefits for unionized miners.
Negotiations on a
Pelosi is insisting the those cost-sharing payments be addressed in the legislation, a demand she made after President
Pelosi wants the payments addressed in the catchall spending bill but Ryan told reporters Wednesday that "we're not doing that."
House Speaker
Ryan told reporters on Wednesday that a proposal that would allow states to get federal waivers to ignore certain coverage requirements, helps secure consensus.
Ryan said, "We'll vote on it when we get the votes." Rep.
Leading House conservatives are saying good things about a plan to revive the
Republican lawmakers were meeting Wednesday to consider how to rescue the
That salvage effort comes as bipartisan bargainers edge toward agreement on a separate
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