claim: "the cost-sharing reductions (were) a gift (that) they gave the insurance companies."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: aug 7, 2017 ... regarding insurance companies, the president is referring to “cost-sharing  reduction” subsidies, known as csrs among health-care policy experts. this  was an ... many insurance companies have made clear they would raise  premiums if the csr payments are not provided by congress. separately, the ...
evidence_2: oct 16, 2017 ... there are two things president donald trump seems to enjoy about the stock  market: watching it go up during his presidency, and sending down the shares of  individual companies with his tweets or remarks. a few hours after tweeting about  the market's gains since his november election, trump was also ...
evidence_3: oct 13, 2017 ... the trump administration's decision to halt payments to insurers that help  millions of lower-income americans afford coverage under the affordable care  act roiled the law's insurance marketplaces friday and sparked an immediate  legal challenge from nearly 20 state attorneys general.
evidence_4: apr 13, 2017 ... but the law was also designed to provide $7 billion per year in “cost sharing  reduction” payments to insurance companies so that people below 250 percent  of the poverty line would have lower deductibles and copayments. these  payments were explicitly included in the health care law, but through the ...
evidence_5: oct 18, 2017 ... had the insurance firms actually double-dipped into both funding streams, the  subsidies might have been more accurately been characterized as a “bailout.”  but on their own, the cost-sharing reductions to insurance firms were not. sarah  huckabee sanders, the white house press secretary, signaled on ...