6 September 2017 - A bipartisan group of state insurance commissioners on Wednesday sketched out possible common ground where Congress could strengthen the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, but the chance of lawmakers coalescing around even a modest consensus remains unclear.

At the first of four hearings before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which is trying to forge a small set of improvements to the ACA’s shaky exchanges, the commissioners urged senators to guarantee at least two more years of funding for subsidies to insurers that President Trump has repeatedly threatened to abolish.

They also said the government should gives states more flexibility to bypass certain ACA insurance requirements and should recreate a pool of money the law originally provided to help buffer health plans from the expense of covering customers with unusually high medical costs.

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