Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray announced from the Senate floor that their bipartisan bill that would, among other things, make cost-sharing payments to insurers has 12 Democrat and 12 Republican co-sponsors. "Our purpose is to stabilize and then lower the costs of premiums in the individual insurance market for the year 2018 and 2019," he said. Alexander noted that the Republican repeal-and-replace bill that passed the House would've continued the cost-sharing payments for two years.