Insurers: Market Stabilization Needed Soon To Avoid Market Fallout

By Ariel Cohen / January 16, 2018 at 8:07 PM
Health insurance stakeholders are urging Congress to soon pass market stabilization legislation to help soften the blow of 2019 rate increases due to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. Senators recently resumed negotiations on the Alexander-Murray bill to fund ACA's cost-sharing reduction payments and the Collins-Nelson amendment to fund reinsurance pools, but for the legislation to have any impact on 2019 marketplaces, stakeholders say lawmakers must work quickly-- and potentially add more funding to the reinsurance bill...


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