A proposal by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to allow health insurers to sell inexpensive partial-coverage policies could save the Senate Republicans' bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but it could also price sicker people out of the individual health insurance market, Politico reported.
The plan would allow healthier people to buy cheap policies that exclude high-cost services. Policies meeting ACA coverage requirements would thus attract mainly sicker people, causing those premiums to skyrocket.
One conservative scholar said that would spell death for Obamacare.
As Senate Republicans continued working on their bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday that the Senate would start its August recess the third week of the month so that the Senate could complete "its work on healthcare reform" among other tasks, CNN reported.