Cassidy Floats Cost-Cutting Package That Includes Individual Market Reforms

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) released a white paper on ways to lower health care costs that includes a series of potential reforms to the Affordable Care Act, including passing the stalled bipartisan market stabilization legislation, codifying short-term plans and making them guaranteed renewable, providing states funding to encourage younger consumers to enroll in the ACA, and giving states the option to combine the Medicaid expansion and individual market risk pools. But Cassidy tells Inside Health Policy it is unlikely...