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Idaho appears to be simply ignoring Obamacare rules, allowing insurers to refuse people with pre-ex
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Idaho appears to be simply ignoring Obamacare rules, allowing insurers to refuse people with pre-ex — and waiting to see what the Trump admin. does.
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Idaho to Allow New Insurance Plans Outside of Federal Health Law
Under ‘state-based plans’ companies could consider enrollees medical history in setting premiums, include dollar limits on total benefit payouts
By Anna Wilde Mathews
Updated Jan. 25, 2018 2:24 p.m. ET
Idaho officials said they will begin allowing insurers to sell new plans that don’t meet requirements set by the Affordable Care Act, a move that will test the limits of states’ ability to carve out their own health-insurance rules under the Trump administration.
In a bulletin issued Wednesday, the Idaho Department of Insurance said that it would allow insurers in the state to begin offering “state-based plans” to consumers. These products could leave out some of the benefits mandated by the ACA for individual coverage. Insurers...
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Under ‘state-based plans’ companies could consider enrollees medical history in setting premiums, include dollar limits on total benefit payouts
By Anna Wilde Mathews
Updated Jan. 25, 2018 2:24 p.m. ET
Idaho officials said they will begin allowing insurers to sell new plans that don’t meet requirements set by the Affordable Care Act, a move that will test the limits of states’ ability to carve out their own health-insurance rules under the Trump administration.
In a bulletin issued Wednesday, the Idaho Department of Insurance said that it would allow insurers in the state to begin offering “state-based plans” to consumers. These products could leave out some of the benefits mandated by the ACA for individual coverage. Insurers...
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Reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering health insurers and reimbursement policy. Reach me at anna.mathews@wsj.com
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These Idaho guidelines for health insurers are crazypants illegal. It's not even close. Does Idaho think the Supremacy Clause doesn't apply to it? http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/DOIBulletin.pdf …Link to tweet
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