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U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Trump: Get real.

6:10 p.m.

The nation’s largest business group is joining doctors, hospitals and insurers in asking President Donald Trump to preserve a key part of “Obamacare,” as his predecessor’s health care law is known.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been critical of many parts of the Obama-era law, signed on to a letter Wednesday that asks Trump to keep cost-sharing subsidies provided by the Affordable Care Act. Those subsidies, totaling an estimated $7 billion this year, help lower deductibles and copayments for people with modest incomes.

The letter — also signed by the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans and other groups — says the cost-sharing subsidies are critical for the stability of health insurance markets.

The subsidies are in legal limbo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/the-latest-trump-expected-to-sign-family-planning-bill/2017/04/12/34c70c08-1fe2-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.094d06c4f11e

Overheard from space: Mars to Trump, Come home, Donald.