House Speaker Paul Ryan and his allies had what looked like the big gorilla of efforts to change the Affordable Care Act.

Now that the American Health Care Act bill appears to be dead, or, at least is doing a convincing job of playing dead, other ACA-change proposals are getting more attention.

Any would-be ACA changers who want to make some kind of health coverage available to consumers in the individual market in 2018 need to act quickly, because health insurers are supposed to be developing filings for 2018 products now.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.