Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Two leading senators, hoping to stabilize teetering health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act, reached a bipartisan deal on Tuesday to fund critical subsidies to insurers that President Trump moved to halt. At the White House, virtually as the deal was being announced, Trump voiced support for it while insisting that he would move forward to repeal Barack Obama’s signature health law. The plan by the senators, Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, would fund the subsidies for two years, a step that would provide at least short-term certainty to insurers. The subsidies, called cost-sharing reductions, go to insurance companies to offset their costs for helping low-income customers with out-of-pocket health care expenditures such as deductibles and co-payments. Without them, insurance companies said, premiums for all customers purchasing plans under the Affordable Care Act would shoot up, and with profits squeezed, some companies would leave the market. “In my view, this agreement avoids chaos,” Alexander said, “and I don’t know a Democrat or a Republican who benefits from chaos.” Trump appeared to back it, even as he berated insurance companies, declared the Affordable Care Act “virtually dead,” and promised the demise of the health law in due time. “It’ll get us over ... Link to the full article to read more