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watoos

(7,142 posts)
9. This subject is confusing to me
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 09:01 AM
Oct 2017

Didn't 4 or 5 states already try to offer insurance policies to its residents across state lines? I recall that those states had zero insurers take them up on the offer.
It seems to me that there are a lot of logistics involved. Aren't insurers going to have set up networks of doctors and hospitals in different states? Aren't the state insurance commissions going to have to issue waivers so that these new insurers are allowed to sell worthless, junk insurance?

Is the plan to allow someone in Pa. to buy a junk insurance plan from an out of state insurer but won't he have to travel to Kansas to get treated by an in-network doctor?

I don't think an EO automatically changes the system, someone help me understand.

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