After Talking With Pence, Collins And Alexander Still Confident CSR, Reinsurance Funding Bills Will Pass

After huddling with Vice President Mike Pence outside the GOP Conference lunch Tuesday, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) expressed confidence that market stabilization bills to fund the ACA's cost-sharing reduction payments and set up reinsurance funding would be included in must-pass legislation before the end of the year. “We were having a very good discussion about the agreements I have with the administration,” Collins said of her huddle with the vice president and Alexander. “I feel very...