CBO: Bipartisan Health Bill Could Lead to More State ACA Waivers

Route Fifty: The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released its analysis of the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017, or the Alexander-Murray bill, as it’s more commonly called.

The bill is named for its chief co-sponsors, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and that panel’s ranking member, Washington Democrat Patty Murray.

Among other impacts, the bill would appropriate the cost-sharing reductions payments that subsidize insurance coverage for low-income consumers and would grant state governments increased flexibility in the form of access to waiver requests.

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