State Officials To Testify At Senate Market Stabilization Hearings

State insurance commissioners will testify before the Senate health committee on Sept. 6 and governors will follow up on Sept. 7 as Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Democrat Patty Murray (WA) lead the effort on a stabilization package for the individual markets in 2018. Alexander reiterated his previous statements that he wants a package in place by Sept. 27. "Unless Congress acts by September 27 -- when insurance companies must sign contracts with the federal government to sell...