{"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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-283226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-amers","tag-cmpny","tag-destlita","tag-destohlt","tag-destoinn","tag-destopub","tag-destousdnm","tag-destoushem","tag-destouspom","tag-dli","tag-eire","tag-fin","tag-fins","tag-gen","tag-hea","tag-heains","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-heca","tag-hfac","tag-hfac1","tag-hlthse","tag-hmos","tag-hmos1","tag-hpas","tag-hrep","tag-ie","tag-insr","tag-ireland","tag-legal","tag-lins","tag-namer","tag-news1","tag-nrlpaohlt","tag-nrlpaoinn","tag-nrlpaopub","tag-packageus-politics","tag-pol","tag-potus","tag-publ","tag-reuters-legal","tag-rhpihealth-insurance","tag-rhpihealthcare-providers","tag-soci","tag-us","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}]}}