White House to order health care alternatives
Source: ABC News
The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system.
President Donald Trump has long asserted that selling insurance across state lines would trigger competition that brings down premiums for people buying their own policies. Experts say that's not guaranteed, partly because health insurance reflects local medical costs, which vary widely around the country.
Moreover, White House actions may come too late to have much impact on premiums for 2018.
Trump was expected to sign the executive order this week, likely on Thursday, a senior administration official said Sunday.
Under the president's executive action, membership groups could sponsor insurance plans that cost less because for example they wouldn't have to offer the full menu of benefits required under the Affordable Care Act, also called "Obamacare." It's unclear how the White House plans to overcome opposition from state insurance regulators, who see that as an end-run to avoid standards.
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BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Open enrollment will be sabotaged now. He is playing games with people's lives.
Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)They_Live
(3,239 posts)Is he just making shit up?
Irish_Dem
(47,302 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)Weren't Trump and republicans against legislating by EOs?
genxlib
(5,529 posts)States rights are paramount right up until they cut against the party line.
Screw the States ability to regulate insurers on behalf of their residents.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)That's what he's doing.
bluestarone
(17,018 posts)somebody has to stop this fucking moron
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Lithos
(26,404 posts)Where insurance companies will chase the state with the least friendly oversight for patients.
L-
watoos
(7,142 posts)already tried this idea, guess what happened? They had no takers. Unless you live in Delaware and want to see a doctor in Kansas, there's a lot more involved. Insurance companies have to set up an entire network of doctors and hospitals and that's not easy.
Of course the scheme is to bypass state insurance commissioners and allow insurers to sell junk insurance. It's a good plan if you don't get sick, even if they could get the system to function.
They_Live
(3,239 posts)DonTcare.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)This is doomed to fail. Either the insured will end up paying $$ that the insurance company won't reimburse or the insurance company just won't pay for procedures.