The state of the ACA's risk corridors

Modern Healthcare:  The Obama administration is now on the hook for more than $8 billion in payments to cover insurer losses on the health insurance exchanges, but industry experts are growing doubtful the full tab will ever be paid.At the same time, while Republican lawmakers are committed to sewing up the federal wallet to keep the current administration from paying insurers what they call a “bailout,” they don't want to see the insurance markets collapse under their watch. Any replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act—which President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have vowed to repeal and replace—would require private insurers to jump on board.

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