(Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans are expressing awillingness to consider a bipartisan approach to strengtheningthe individual insurance market underObamacare, even as President Donald Trump is deciding whetherto end payments for it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday he’d beopen to the attempt, which follows the collapse of Republicanefforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according tothe Associated Press. Republican Senator Thom Tillis said he’d beobligated to consider it.

“We have got a destabilized market where insurance rates aregoing to go up 20, 30, 40 percent next year,” Tillis of NorthCarolina said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “Anything that we cando to prevent that and the damage that that will have on people whoneed health care I think is something I have to look at.”

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