Hoyer: Today's Ruling Underscores Exactly Why Congress Must Enact the Bipartisan Alexander-Murray Compromise

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after a U.S. District Court denied an emergency order to compel the Trump Administration to continue cost-sharing reduction payments:

"Today's ruling underscores exactly why Congress must enact the bipartisan Alexander-Murray compromise to stabilize our health insurance markets, which includes cost-sharing reduction payments and would reduce deficits by $3.8 billion.  It is clear that the Trump Administration will continue sabotaging the Affordable Care Act in whatever way it can.  The cessation of cost-sharing reduction payments will have an immediate and devastating effect on the stability of our health insurance markets, impacting consumers just as the open-enrollment period commences.  Democrats and Republicans have agreed on a path forward to stabilize our health care markets, and we must take action.”