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All eyes now turn to what the Trump and Congress will do about a shaky individual insurance market.

Modern Healthcare: The dramatic collapse of the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have, for now, minimized the threat of significant Medicaid funding cuts. All eyes now turn to what the Trump administration and Congress will do about a shaky individual insurance market.

The administration could put its thumb on the scale for an Obamacare failure it has been rooting for by cutting off cost-sharing payments to insurers. Thus far, President Donald Trump has threatened to let the system go into a freefall, but hasn't fully followed though since it has continued to make those critical payments.

"As I said from the beginning, let Obamacare implode, then deal. Watch!" the president tweeted at 2:25 a.m. Friday, barely an hour after the Senate failed in a 49-51 vote to pass a so-called skinny repeal of the ACA. Republican Senators John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski crossed the aisle to vote with all 48 Democrats and kill the repeal-and-replace effort.

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