Health insurer Anthem Inc. sought changes to the Republican replacement plan for the Affordable CareAct when its chief executive officer talked with PresidentDonald Trump on Tuesday.

Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish talked with Trump and Health and HumanServices Secretary Tom Price about elements of the GOP plan thathe’d like to see “enhanced,” such as making sure that cost-sharingsubsidies continue, and that “Medicaid is appropriately funded,”the company’s finance chief, John Gallina, told investors at aconference on Wednesday. Swedish also discussed “some of the thingsin the bill that we want to ensure stay in the bill, such as theelimination of the taxes,” Gallina said.

The company offers health insurance under the Blue Cross andBlue Shield brand in 14 states and is among the largest insurers tocontinue offering plans on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.Anthem has also expanded its Medicaid business, fueled by the ACA’sexpansion of that program to more low-income individuals.

“We’re extremely engaged with the leaders and the Americanpublic,” Gallina said at the Barclays Global HealthcareConference. “We feel very good, very encouraged, by the fact thatthe president and his team are listening and actually makingchanges based on feedback that the industry is providing.”

Republican lawmakers in the House have proposed a bill, calledthe American Health Care Act, that would wind down Obamacare’sexpansion of the Medicaid program for the poor and reduce thesubsidies provided to help individuals buy insurance. The act wouldresult in 14 million people losing their health insurance nextyear, and about 24 million more going uninsured in a decade,compared with what would happen under the ACA, according to thenonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Anthem has other business before the administration: the companyhas challenged a judge’s decision blocking its acquisition of rivalCigna Corp. after it was challenged by the Justice Departmentlast year on antitrust grounds. An Anthem attorney involved in adispute between Anthem and Cigna told a Delaware judge last monththat company officials were hoping that new lawyers brought intothe Justice Department by the Trump administration would have adifferent view of the deal’s effect on competition.

Gallina didn’t say whether Swedish discussed the Cigna deal withTrump, and spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs declined to comment beyondGallina’s remarks. The White House declined to say what wasdiscussed in the meeting.

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