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Republicans strategize attack on Obamacare if they win the Senate
Count on two years of intensified battles over Obamacare if Republicans win control of the Senate in next month’s elections, which pollsters say they have a better-than-even chance of achieving. An obscure but critical reform provision likely to come under immediate attack is risk corridor payments to health insurers. Those payments, established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, encourage insurers to participate in the reformed individual and small-group markets by shielding them from major losses if customers turn out to be sicker and costlier than anticipated. Without them, insurers might withdraw from the markets.…Read More