Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking Democrat Patty Murray (WA) reached a deal to fund the cost-sharing reduction payments for two years, allow all Americans to purchase catastrophic plans, restore ACA marketing funding via state outreach grant and provide “significant” changes to the Section 1332 waivers that would expand choices and speed up the approval process, according to Alexander's office. The deal also includes a mechanism to ensure that issuers who have increased premiums to mitigate the...