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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Creating Reinsurance Program, Bringing Back Insurer Subsidies Are Focus Of House Task Force Looking To Stabilize Health Law
A group of moderate House Democrats will make a push this year to聽stabilize ObamaCare's markets,聽reviving an effort that聽fell to partisan bickering聽in 2017.聽The New Democrat Coalition, a caucus of 101聽centrists, says the House should "immediately"聽work with Republicans to bring down ObamaCare premiums and聽reverse聽the聽Trump administration's "sabotage" of the health care law. (Hellmann, 2/27)
The Trump administration is considering action two fronts that could loosen up the reins on health savings accounts. HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday pushed the idea of funneling Affordable Care Act subsidies into HSAs for people in the individual market to pay for premiums and other out-of-pocket health spending. At the same time, the administration is exploring a proposal that would allow high-deductible plans with HSAs to cover preventive services such as providing free insulin. (Luthi and King, 2/27)
