President Donald Trump's new budget proposal for 2019 could provide enough funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost-sharing reduction subsidy program to make $8.1 billion in outlays in 2019.
The program helps low-income ACA public exchange plan users handle their health insurance co-payments and deductibles.
Trump and officials in his administration cut off subsidy payments to health insurers in the middle of 2017, and they are still trying to repeal and replace the ACA. But the budget proposal shows that, if the proposal were adopted as written, outlays could increase a little next year, from an estimated total of $8 billion this year.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
