Senate Democrats Push New Stabilization Requests Post-Mandate Repeal

A Democratic aide says that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate included in the GOP tax bill along with the administration's decision to end cost-sharing payments and promote non-ACA compliant insurance options means the bipartisan stabilization deal agreed to last fall must be tweaked in order to achieve the original goals of lowering prices and undoing market chaos. Specifically, Democrats are now looking to expand the ACA's subsidies, restore all funding for outreach and education slashed by...