Sum-Up: Will The Final Push to Stabilize Obamacare End in Failure?

on December 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. — WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 08: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) answers reporters' questions during a news briefing with (L-R) Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Sen. John Cornyn (R-T... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 08: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) answers reporters' questions during a news briefing with (L-R) Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the U.S. Capitol December 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. The government is slated to run out of spending authority on December 11 and Republican and Democratic leaders are at an impasse over an omnibus spending bill. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS

By Alice Ollstein

March 20, 2018 11:04 a.m.

Republicans in the House and Senate released a bill Monday afternoon that aims to shore up Obamacare’s damaged individual market and bring down insurance premiums. The bill would bring back the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to health insurers that President Trump terminated last year, pour $30 billion into a federal reinsurance program, and fully restore funding to the open- enrollment outreach work that the federal government abandoned when Trump took office.

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