By John Demspey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  West Suburban Republican Congressman Peter Roskam was on WLS Friday morning to talk about President Trump’s latest action to pull funding from a key set of Obamacare subsidies.

The Congressman told “The Big John and Ramblin’ Ray Show” that Trump is understandably upset that Republicans have failed to keep their promise to get rid of Obamacare and and replace it with something else.

“What’s happening here is the frustration of the President of the United States is palpable”, said Roskam.  “I mean, just simply palpable.   That a core promise of the Republican Party, my party, has not come to fruition.   And there’s no excuse for it, there’s no hedging about it.”

Roskam believes Republicans will continue to use their majorities in the House and Senate to come up with a replacement for Obamacare.   If that does not work, he says Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander and Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray are engaged in talks aimed at trying to fix the Obama health care law.

“Remember there’s also a bipartisan approach that’s being discussed between Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray.  That’s not repeal and replacement but that’s improvements on health care, so the bottom line is, nobody’s going to stick around and just let this law stay the way it is because it is not doing what it was supposed to do.”

The Trump administration announced late Thursday night that it would immediately stop supporting the cost-sharing subsidies that reimburse insurers for reducing the deductibles and co-pays of lower-income Obamacare enrollees.    Under Trump, the government has been paying the subsidies on a month-to-month basis, unnerving many insurers.

Because Obamacare requires the insurers to continue offering the cost sharing discounts, they have responded to the government uncertainty by dramatically raising their rates for 2018.   Trump critics fear his actions could destabilize the insurance markets.

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