Health Exchange Alert Weekly Report - 11/14/2018

Senate Democrats To Focus On Preexisting Conditions In Split Congress

By Ariel Cohen / November 7, 2018 at 1:12 AM
Prior to the midterm elections, Senate Democratic staffers prepared for a split Congress, with a GOP-controlled Senate and a Democratic House, by meeting with health care stakeholders and their House counterparts to coordinate next steps and make plans to re-frame the push for Obamacare market stabilization as a way to protect people with preexisting conditions, sources close to the Senate health committee say. A split Congress puts pressure on both parties to look at less controversial bipartisan legislation that could...


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