President Donald Trump called the American Health Care Act "mean" at a Tuesday lunch with Republican senators, calling for more money to be added to the bill for marketplace enrollees, according to a report from CNN.
The bill, which the House approved May 4, eliminates the ACA's advanced premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions for marketplace enrollees in 2020, replacing them with tax credits linked to age. It also removes the requirement that payers must coverage at least 60 percent of the cost of benefits included in the plans.
At the lunch meeting, President Trump expressed support for making the Senate version of the bill more generous than the House version, according to CNN. Senators discussed restructuring the AHCA tax credits to provide more support for older and lower-income enrollees. The Senate bill must generate the same overall savings as the House bill — $133 billion — but how it generates those savings is flexible, according to the report.
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