Bipartisan governors' group proposes health insurance fixes - Entrepreneur Generations

Congress has tried and so far failed to repeal or replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, so a bipartisan group of governors is trying to repair it. The seven Democrats and six Republicans in the Governors' Bipartisan Health Reform Learning Network have crafted a slew of proposals: They want "federal money to stabilize the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces, and greater power to manage them," Michael Ollove reports for Stateline. "They argue it should be easier for states to customize Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor, and they want new tools to curb fast-rising drug prices. And they insist that states should continue to regulate the health policies sold within their borders."

The group, which was assembled by the National Governors Association in March, released a list of its ideas in June. They plan to continue meeting for the next 18 months to distill their ideas into policy proposals that, they hope, will be enacted through congressional legislation or Cabinet-issued regulations. The states in the governors' group are: California, Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

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