State-based ACA exchange programs aren't getting any answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the 2018 individual major-medical open-enrollment period.
Senate Republicans are now trying to change the ACA by debating, amending and, possibly, passing their own version of H.R. 1628, a House bill that would repeal many parts of the Affordable Care Act and change others.
Here's a look at five ways the Senate's BCRA bill could possibly make commercial health risk roll in unhelpful or surprising directions, if lawmakers, regulators, insurers and others fail to make adjustments, based on a review of social media chatter and other sources.
Republicans hold just 52 seats in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is struggling to get more conservative and more moderate Republicans to unite behind the version of the Affordable Care Act change bill released last week.