Impact of Association Health Plans on Consumers and Markets Will Depend on States
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a final regulation in June that implements President Trump’s executive order calling for the expansion of association health plans (AHPs). Professional or trade associations will now be permitted to sell health plans that are exempt from many of the Affordable Care Act’s protections as early as September 1. Twelve state attorneys general have sued to block implementation, given AHPs’ long history of fraud and insolvency and their negative impact on some individual and small-group markets.
On To the Point, researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms report that, assuming the rule stands, state regulation of AHPs will vary because of differences in existing laws, oversight practices, political will, and administrative capacity.
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