Definition of stop payment
: a depositor's order to a bank to refuse to honor a specified check drawn by him or her
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After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums.
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After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums.
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After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums.
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After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums.
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The Post also reports that Congress has reached a bipartisan deal on Obamacare subsidies after President Donald Trump stopped payments on them.
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One area where Trump's policies may not impact the Rust Belt as much is his stopping payments for cost-sharing reductions (CSR) to insurance companies.
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For months, Trump — a critic of the federal health care law — has been threatening to stop payments that reimburse insurers for reducing co-pays and deductibles for lower-income people.
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First Known Use of stop payment
circa 1919
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stop payment
legal Definition of stop payment
: a depositor's order to a bank to refuse to honor a specified check drawn by him or her
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