Insurers lay out their Obamacare repeal-and-replace requests

Published February 1, 2017 3:00pm ET



Insurance industry chief Marilyn Tavenner Wednesday morning laid out insurers’ most specific and pointed requests yet as Congress works to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Tavenner, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, asked senators on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to keep providing insurers with all of the law’s subsidies, as well extra payments shielding them from losses — at least in the short term. She warned that if they don’t, they risk destabilizing the individual insurance market, prompting higher premiums and fewer choices for consumers.

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