This op-ed for The Hill is part of an ongoing collaboration with George Kalogeropoulos, CEO of HealthSherpa, on strategic health care topics, especially those pertaining to the individual, ACA-subsidized health insurance market and part-time workforces.
Another opportunity to stabilize the individual market came and went last month, with the passage of the omnibus spending bill for 2018. President Trump had promised Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that if she voted for individual mandate zero-out, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual market stabilization plan she proposed with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) would be included in the spending bill. Alas, this did not come to be and now the popular consensus among experts is that there will not be a legislative solution until after the midterm election….
