Insurance regulators want Obamacare payments in spending bill

State insurance regulators from across the country are imploring Congress to include Obamacare payments in a spending bill to fund the government next week.

The states say if the government doesn’t fully fund cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers to reimburse them for lowering costs for poor Obamacare customers, it could cause the individual market to collapse. The letter comes a day after the insurance industry unsuccessfully tried to get a top Trump administration official to commit to the payments.