Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System
As recently as late July, Congress appeared at the end of the health care road with its one-way, one-sided, closed-door approach to repairing the Affordable Care Act. Now, little more than a month since failing to move forward with their partisan efforts, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working together on something all sides can agree upon: restoring stability to our individual health insurance markets.
This is an obvious place to start. Nearly 22 million Americans are caught up in the volatility of the individual health insurance market. Many are struggling to afford coverage and often have a limited menu of plans to buy on their exchange.
We have been working for months — on both sides of the aisle — to create a framework to build an improved health insurance system that is available and affordable to every American. . .