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Americans are no longer content to let people go without health insurance.

State insurance commissioners have a message for Congress and the Trump administration: fund the cost-sharing reduction payments so the Affordable Care Act exchanges can be stabilized.

Republicans may think they can kill off the Affordable Care Act by taking not-so-subtle steps to cripple signups and deprive insurers of necessary funds to keep them in the program, but Democrats arent going to let it happen quietly.

Almost eight months after President Donald Trump took office and promised to immediately repeal Obamacare, Republican senators are instead developing a small package of changes to help the health law rather than end it.

The rising out-of-pocket costs for specialty drugs within Affordable Care Act plans is most concerning.

Andy Slavitt, former administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, descibes actions that could result in a successful enrollment period.