In a conference call with reporters, Brown said he would consider changes to attract younger and healthier people into the insurance pools for the individual market. The law offers middle-income people without health coverage to buy individual insurance policies through federal and state marketplaces known as exchanges. But premiums on those policies have increased because not enough young and healthy people tried to buy policies in the marketplaces.
“We have said all along on the Affordable Care Act that if we had more young people in the pool….it would stabilize prices,” Brown told reporters on a conference call today.
In a floor speech today, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said if Trump ends his efforts to “undermine the” health law, “we Democrats are ready to sit down with him and Republicans in Congress in good faith to discuss a bipartisan approach to improving our health care system.”
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