An employer group says the success of one Trump administration proposal for cutting small employers' health benefits costs depends on the stability of the individual major medical market.
The American Benefits Council has asked the administration to think about the small employers when it takes steps, such as ending Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments in the middle of the year, that might hurt the individual market.
Trump administration officials announced late Thursday that they would end the cost-sharing reduction subsidy program payment stream immediately, because they do not believe the administration has a valid congressional appropriation it can use to justify making the payments.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
