{"id":244104,"date":"2026-01-14T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244104\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:53:18","slug":"us-lawmakers-seek-testimony-from-five-health-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244104\/","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":244105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[111412,111396,111432,111435,114601,111425,111422,111427,118545,111398,4672,111832,19356,72302,123195,103,397,396,111811,122432,122433,119385,119386,119387,119388,118544,61,118532,60,2900,123196,111414,111402,111429,114600,111416,118546,111403,76240,111404,111417,119383,119384,111406,90,72729],"class_list":["post-244104","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-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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}