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What insurance market fixes can the GOP cram into an ACA repeal bill?

Modern Healthcare: Republicans risk crashing the individual insurance markets and causing 30 million Americans to lose coverage if they repeal the Affordable Care Act without immediately replacing it with a new system.

That's the prevailing fear among policy experts. But it's not what some prominent insurance industry leaders are saying. They think congressional Republicans are listening seriously to their proposals for stabilizing the markets during the process of repealing the law and subsequently crafting a replacement. And they expect some of those measures to be included in the expedited repeal bill that could pass as soon as next month.

Those discussions come as Congress approved a budget blueprint Thursday—despite fierce Democrat efforts to derail it—that would enable them to rapidly wipe out most of the ACA on a party-line vote. It instructs key committees to draft repeal legislation by Jan. 27.

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