- Funding Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction subsidies.
- Providing additional funding to help insurers deal with high-cost patients.
- Giving tax breaks to insurers that enter counties with only one insurance option, or letting individuals in those counties purchase federal employee insurance plans.
- Maintaining Obamacare’s requirement that all individuals purchase insurance or pay a fine, at least until a replacement can be put in place.
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