Health Insurers Sink as Hopes of Subsidy Extension Recede (1)

Shares of US health-care insurers and hospitals are falling Monday as lawmakers draw closer to ending the longest government shutdown in US history without securing an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies.

A group of eight Democrats on Sunday broke with the rest of their party — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — to vote with Republicans to advance a bill to re-open the government on the impasse’s 40th day. The proposed plan does not include an extension of health-care subsidies that the Democrats hinged their shutdown fight on.

“Without a resolution to the Exchange enhanced subsidy issue, we ...