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Good News Everyone!

Good news everyone! The Alexander-Collins ACA stabilization bill funds the CSR portion of BHPs for plan year 2018. Crisis averted! Well… is it? Back in August, I hypothesized that BHP funding may be unaffected by CSR funding. I would currently mark that as incomplete given what has occurred since. The administration decided that I was wrong, cut off that funding and then NY and Minnesota sued. If this bill is passed, the lawsuit would be rendered moot since they are narrowly suing for the moneys they expected but did not receive (completely reasonable, of course). To recap: this bill appropriates funds for the CSR component of the 2018 BHP funding, which is the subject of a lawsuit. This bill does 2 other things (I guess it technically does a lot more than 2 things but for our purposes, 2 things): it appropriates funds for CSRs permanently and it appropriates funds for 1332 waivers. Most people think that by funding CSRs, we move on from the BHP funding headache. The argu