Kaine announces bill to help health insurance market

 Healthcare still remains the hot button topic in D-C-.
  As republicans urge finish their process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
  Insurers are leaving marketplaces across the country and here on Delmarva amid all the uncertainty.
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  That is causing premiums for many to rise and Senator Tim Kaine believes he and Senator Tom Carper have a bill that can help that dilemma.
  Kaine made the announcement during a planned studio time with reporters.
  He says the bill would create a re-insurance fund to help insurance companies cover high risk individuals.
  This in turn would help people buying insurance outside of their companies see lower rates.
  If successful – Kaine says the bill could have a significant impact in rural areas.

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<1044 I think rural areas probably have in some ways a higher percentage of people who are buying insurance through an individual market rather than through an employer and this reinsurance provision that covers high cost as well as they encouragement to enrollment of heathy people could help bring premiums down and provide some relief 1104>

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  Kaine says that there is an extreme sense of urgency to get the bill passed given the uncertainty around the future of health care right now in the nations capital.