Market Stabilization Negotiations In Flux As Lawmakers Seek Funding Mechanism

Disagreements over policy and funding may thwart already tentative negotiations to include Affordable Care Act marketplace stabilization measures in the March 23 omnibus, lawmakers said Tuesday. GOP lawmakers disagree on which health policy priorities to include in the broader package, with some lawmakers still seeking a way to pay for the possible addition of reinsurance funding, and pondering a budget maneuver that would glean savings from funding the cost-sharing reduction payments. Some lawmakers are also pushing to include provisions supporting...