Health policy watchers who appeared at a conference in New York on Wednesday seemed to be even more uncertain about the future than they were back in January, when the Trump administration was starting to sketch out its plans for replacing the Affordable Care Act.

But panelists did make some cautious guesses about what could, possibly happen in Washington in the next few months at the event, which was organized by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings.

The S&P panelists' views could have some extra importance, because S&P ratings affect companies' and government agencies' access to capital, and S&P aimed the conference at representatives from mutual funds, reinsurers and other organizations involved with supplying capital for U.S. insurers, U.S. hospitals, and other organizations involved in the U.S. health care system.

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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.