The final regulations could encourage employers to offer workers access to brokers and private health insurance exchange programs.

Members of the physician group voted 47 percent to 53 percent against supporting government-run health care.

The main reason is that, according to eHealth, 2019 market numbers look pretty good.

The provision would require "disclosure of direct and indirect compensation for brokers and consultants to employer-sponsored health plans."

Maine Community Health Options argues that the congressional action has no legal effect on the existence of payment obligations.

H.R. 861, would require any hospital seeking to participate in Medicare to provide any out-of-network insured patients with detailed cost notices.

About 16 percent of millennials lacked health coverage in late 2018, up from 11 percent in 2016.

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