WASHINGTON — A Senate Republican bill would deposit up to $1,500 directly into Americans’ health care savings accounts is drawing praise from President Trump.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday night, “I like the concept. I don’t want to give the insurance companies any money.”

“They’ve been ripping off the public for years,” the president added. “Obamacare is a scam to make the insurance companies rich. … Billions and billions of dollars is paid directly to insurance companies.”

The bill , which had been on track to receive a vote in the Senate this week, is an attempt to reduce mounting costs for the 24 million Americans on Obamacare.

A provision in the bill hands out $1,000 checks to eligible Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees between the ages of 18 and 49 —

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