Democrats ask Trump to backpedal decision on Obamacare risk adjustment program

Published July 16, 2018 8:40pm ET



The Trump administration should reverse its decision to stop an Obamacare program that collects and pays out billions of dollars to health insurance companies, a group of Democrats said Monday.

The action will “further destabilize the individual and small group markets that millions of Americans rely on for health insurance,” five Democrats wrote in a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma.

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