Trump administration widens availability of skimpy, short-term health plans
Source: The Washington Post
By Amy Goldstein
August 1 at 7:00 AM
The Trump administration issued new insurance rules early Wednesday to encourage more Americans to buy inexpensive, skimpy health plans originally designed for short-term use.
The policies will be available for 12 months at a time, up from a current limit of three, and customers will be able to renew them for additional years.
The new rules are the second tool the administration has devised lately to foster low-price insurance that circumvents the Affordable Care Acts coverage requirements and consumer protections. In June, the Labor Department issued rules that will make it easier for small companies to buy a type of insurance known as association health plans and, for the first time, allow them to be sold to people who are self-employed.
The pair of new rules carries out an executive order President Trump signed in October, directing agencies to broaden access to these two small niches in the insurance market to promote a health-care system that provides high-quality care at affordable prices for the American people.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-widens-availability-of-skimpy-short-term-health-plans/2018/07/31/a5cf2bc2-94d2-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html
groundloop
(11,519 posts)I realize he fancies himself a king, but what's the Affordable Care Act have to say about it?
riversedge
(70,242 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)Would be nice if the plan includes covers cheap coffins and covers $5K in burial/cremation expenses.
To cut expenses, you can always try to get Joe MAGA next door to transport the body to the mortuary in his pick-up or on the roof rack of the family SUV.
Haele
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)healthcare-lite meets guns-lite that are cloaked in smocks and are untraceable
Put it in the Alzheimer's Blender and see what you come up with