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Fate Of Business Linked To Trump's Family Rests On How He'll Move Forward With Health Care
For health insurance startup Oscar Insurance Corp., the election of Donald Trump could be a tough pill to swallow, complicated by ownership ties to the incoming administration that will put it under a bright spotlight. The New York company built its business on the Affordable Care Act, the health law that Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans have vowed to dismantle. Josh Kushner, brother of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, is a co-founder, and prominent Trump supporter Peter Thiel is among Oscar鈥檚 main investors. (Winkler and Wilde Mathews, 11/21)
President-elect Donald Trump's promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act聽raises a host of questions for health-insurance companies and consumers. ... Oscar Health, a start-up insurance company that has been valued at $2.7 billion,聽grappled with the uncertainty last week. In a blog post, its founders acknowledged the unknowns: 鈥淭hough the precise nature of these changes has not yet been determined, we believe it is important to set forth Oscar's observations on the health care landscape.鈥 A co-author聽of that blog post聽happens to be Joshua Kushner 鈥 the brother of Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner. (Johnson, 11/21)