Insurers pick up the pieces after Obamacare bills fail

By Robert King

Published March 26, 2018 4:00am ET

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Insurers pick up the pieces after Obamacare bills fail — House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., a key steward of the House Republican health care bill, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the GOP's long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare" failed in the Senate. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Insurers have a few months to decide whether to participate in Obamacare’s exchanges after an effort to stabilize them fell apart Thursday.

The deadline to submit health plans and preliminary costs for the law’s exchanges is June 20, and insurers will have to make the decision on participation knowing that a bill to give them funding to help lower premiums won’t be coming anytime soon.

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