Va. lawmakers work to ensure health insurance access in rural areas
"This news does not yet mean that
"This is the collapse of Obamacare I have spoken of for years. Obamacare was built much like a house of cards, and we are now seeing its fall," Griffith said. "The
Griffith explained how the bill would have improved the insurance market by giving companies a more stable and certain business environment.
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Griffith said he would continue to do everything he could to ensure that all Americans can get health insurance.
"I am ready to work across the aisle in
During a hearing Thursday of the
Kaine said that while he was addressing his committee colleagues and a group of governors, he cautioned against these health care disparities that hurt rural communities and called on the bipartisan group of leaders to grapple with this issue to fix the growing divide between rural, suburban, and urban America.
"The Optima decision, the
Kaine and
"You've done a very good job, each of you, as you've collectively described the benefits of reinsurance," Kaine said. "You can lower premiums, by (lowering) premiums you can bring in more young healthy people, and other people who just find affordability more attractive obviously. By lowering premiums you reduce the advance premium tax credit, the subsidy (CSR payments) on the federal budget. You can protect high risk people and you can also send a signal of stability to insurers that there will be a backstop against high cost claims, keeping them in the market. The strategies that we're talking about here and that have been validated by, yesterday and today, two groups of bipartisan leaders at the state level are anything but 'a bailout' for anyone, they're really designed to help people and to provide at least some temporary stability with a predictability that will enable us to find bigger picture items."
The committee will again meet next week for two additional bipartisan hearings on health care improvements. HELP Committee Chairman
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