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Cosgrove has criticized Obamacare and in September appeared on CNBC's “Squawk Box” saying that health-care providers are drowning in paperwork. “The number of quality metrics that we have to report to the government every year is just going up like crazy. We're now reporting well over 100 quality metrics on a regular basis,” he said, describing regulation paperwork as coming in seven-foot-tall stacks of 16,000 pages. Also in the meeting were Bruce Moskowitz, described as a physician in Palm Beach, and Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment. We can't explain what he was doing there. Separately, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson was expected to meet with Trump later in the day to discuss Obamacare reform, according to a pool report. Thompson served as secretary of health and human services during George W. Bush's first term. This post has been updated. Read more: Trump could quickly doom ACA cost-sharing subsidies for millions of Americans Trump turns to conservative tacticians to run HHS and Medicare, Medicaid Trump names Rep. Tom Price as next HHS secretary Ariana Eunjung Cha is a national reporter. She has previously served as the Post's bureau chief in Shanghai and San Francisco, and as a correspondent in Baghdad. W Follow @arianaeunjung The Post Recommends HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019216