Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Already-Jittery Insurers Eye Uncertain Future With Concern
House Republicans鈥 failure to pass their bill overhauling the Affordable Care Act leaves health-care companies with continued challenges, most acutely for insurers facing decisions about whether to offer plans in the existing law鈥檚 marketplaces next year. (Wilde Mathews and Evans, 3/24)
GOP leaders could face a crisis soon when jittery insurers must announce whether they'll sell plans for 2018 and how they'll price them. [House Speaker Paul] Ryan said his big concern is that the ACA insurance market could collapse, with exiting insurers and soaring premiums. 鈥淲e'll try to prop it up, but it's so fundamentally flawed that I don't know if it's possible.鈥 But many experts say administration actions and and inactions鈥攏otably the failure to fund payments to insurers for cost-sharing reductions and reinsurance鈥攈ave contributed to the instability. (Meyer, 3/25)
Global stocks were lower on Monday as caution among investors prevailed with lingering doubts about the future policy agenda of the new U.S. administration following the health care reform failure. (3/27)