Avik Roy, a longtime Republican health policy advisor, sketched out an individual health insurance first-aid proposal at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
Roy suggested that Congress could agree to keep Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy funding in place for 2018 and 2019, and, in exchange, insist on loosening ACA requirements that now increase overall coverage costs.
“It’s appropriate for Congress to consider ways to provide legal certainty for insurers,” Roy said.
But Roy said Congress should combine legal certainty for insurers with help for consumers hurt by ACA-driven increases in individual health coverage premiums.
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Roy, who is now the president of the Austin, Texas-based Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He advised Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012, and Rick Perry’s campaign in 2016.