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GOP chairman pushes for ObamaCare payments to be made
June 15, 2017
A top Senate Republican is calling for critical payments to insurers to be funded through 2019 either by administrative action, legislation or both.*
At a hearing Thursday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) —*the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — made the recommendation for making the payments to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price.
Alexander has been urging Congress to*temporarily “repair” ObamaCare as Republicans work to dismantle and replace it. *
“The payments will help to avoid the real possibility that millions of Americans will literally have zero options for insurance in the individual market in 2018,” Alexander said at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the HHS budget request.
Meanwhile, insurers are pleading for certainty that the administration or Congress will fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, which compensate insurers for lowering the out-of-pocket costs for some lower-income Americans. *
They’re in the midst of deciding whether they’ll sell plans on the ObamaCare exchanges and how much those plans will cost. Meanwhile, the administration hasn’t said how long it will continue to fund these payments, totaling about $7 billion this year.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/337946-gop-chairman-pushes-for-obamacare-payments-to-be-made
GOP chairman pushes for ObamaCare payments to be made
June 15, 2017
A top Senate Republican is calling for critical payments to insurers to be funded through 2019 either by administrative action, legislation or both.*
At a hearing Thursday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) —*the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — made the recommendation for making the payments to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price.
Alexander has been urging Congress to*temporarily “repair” ObamaCare as Republicans work to dismantle and replace it. *
“The payments will help to avoid the real possibility that millions of Americans will literally have zero options for insurance in the individual market in 2018,” Alexander said at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the HHS budget request.
Meanwhile, insurers are pleading for certainty that the administration or Congress will fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, which compensate insurers for lowering the out-of-pocket costs for some lower-income Americans. *
They’re in the midst of deciding whether they’ll sell plans on the ObamaCare exchanges and how much those plans will cost. Meanwhile, the administration hasn’t said how long it will continue to fund these payments, totaling about $7 billion this year.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/337946-gop-chairman-pushes-for-obamacare-payments-to-be-made