Republicans are starting to reconsider reinsurance.
Faced with the prospect that they might be blamed for big increases in health insurance premiums in the weeks before the November elections, GOP leaders in Congress and in a number of states are trying to put in place the type of reinsurance programs that they fought to dismantle in the past.
President Trump's budget included $800 million to fund the Affordable Care Act risk corridor program, which was largely crippled by a budget deal in 2015. While Congress is viewing the president's budget as a symbolic document that will unlikely be approved in whole, the inclusion of risk corridors suggests Trump would be willing to sign a separate bill aimed at shoring up the ACA marketplace.
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