Community Plans Peg Priorities For Senate Health Bill, Transition Period

The lobby representing non-profit, community-based plans last week sent a letter to Senate leaders offering its priorities for health reform and any transitional policies and providing ideas on how to reduce health system costs. The Alliance for Community Health Plans (ACHP), like several other stakeholders, stressed a need to fund the ACA's cost-sharing reduction payments and other market stabilizing features -- including reinsurance -- during any transition. ACHP further called for the final version of Congress' health reform bill to...