{"id":283226,"date":"2026-01-14T04:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283226\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:01:19","slug":"us-lawmakers-seek-testimony-from-five-health-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283226\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers seek testimony from five health insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. House lawmakers have called on the chief executives of the some of the nation&#8217;s top health insurers to testify before Congress later this month to discuss coverage affordability.<\/p>\n<p>The planned hearing comes as the Republican-led House <a data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-house-vote-democratic-effort-reinstate-healthcare-subsidies-2026-01-07\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weighs a Democratic proposal<\/a> to extend Obamacare subsidies. Republican President Donald Trump has also said he <a data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-says-he-will-meet-with-health-insurers-in-few-days-2026-01-06\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plans to meet<\/a> with health insurance companies soon.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Susan Heavey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. House lawmakers have called on the chief executives of the some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[82519,82500,82559,87652,87221,83404,84147,87219,85215,83113,18,32356,82503,45748,87209,87210,135,475,474,87211,87648,87649,87212,87213,87214,87215,92745,19,87216,17,721,87217,82524,82507,87647,87220,83402,85216,82508,1540,82510,82558,87205,87206,83126,107,83127],"class_list":{"0":"post-283226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-amers","9":"tag-cmpny","10":"tag-destlita","11":"tag-destohlt","12":"tag-destoinn","13":"tag-destopub","14":"tag-destousdnm","15":"tag-destoushem","16":"tag-destouspom","17":"tag-dli","18":"tag-eire","19":"tag-fin","20":"tag-fins","21":"tag-gen","22":"tag-hea","23":"tag-heains","24":"tag-health","25":"tag-health-care","26":"tag-healthcare","27":"tag-heca","28":"tag-hfac","29":"tag-hfac1","30":"tag-hlthse","31":"tag-hmos","32":"tag-hmos1","33":"tag-hpas","34":"tag-hrep","35":"tag-ie","36":"tag-insr","37":"tag-ireland","38":"tag-legal","39":"tag-lins","40":"tag-namer","41":"tag-news1","42":"tag-nrlpaohlt","43":"tag-nrlpaoinn","44":"tag-nrlpaopub","45":"tag-packageus-politics","46":"tag-pol","47":"tag-potus","48":"tag-publ","49":"tag-reuters-legal","50":"tag-rhpihealth-insurance","51":"tag-rhpihealthcare-providers","52":"tag-soci","53":"tag-us","54":"tag-wash"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115891462702219338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}