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Health groups plead for keeping Obamacare payments

By Robert King
Published May 19, 2017 9:53pm ET
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Health groups plead for keeping Obamacare payments
Insurers, doctor and hospital groups have teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ask Congress to continue paying Obamacare subsidies amid reports that President Trump wants to do away with them. The organizations said the uncertainty is creating turmoil on the individual insurance market. The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) | Jose Luis Magana

A collection of major insurer, doctor and hospital groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are pleading with Congress to keep paying Obamacare insurer subsidies, after a report said that President Trump wants to end the payments.

The letter to Senate leadership released Friday comes a few hours after a Politico report that Trump wants to end the insurer payments, which the groups say would cause turmoil on the individual market.

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