In testimony last week before the U.S. Senate's Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak and Governor Bill Haslam urged Congress to keep paying cost-sharing payments called CSRs. The Trump Administration has hinted it will halt those payments, a moveobservers have said could be dangerous for already-precarious markets, consumers and insurers.
What are CSRs, and why do they matter? And why is Congress facing a tight deadline for action? Dr. Carole Myers parses the HELP hearings in this week's installment of HealthConnections.
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