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An Opportunity to Protect Consumers and Ensure a Level Playing Field: Reversing Trump-era Rules on Association Health Plans
An executive order from President Biden is likely to prompt a review of Trump administration rules e...
Updates from the MEWA Files: Self-Dealing, Derelict Administration, and Repeat Players, Oh My!
Last month, CHIRblog released a trove of investigative reports and case files from the U.S. Departme...
The MEWA Files: Lifting the Curtain on DOL’s Investigation into AHPs and Other Fraudulent Health Plans
CHIR is releasing several thousand pages of Department of Labor (DOL) investigative records regardin...
Seeing Fraud and Misleading Marketing, States Warn Consumers About Alternative Health Insurance Products
States are warning consumers of fraud and about the inadequate nature of some insurance products bei...
What’s New for 2020 Marketplace Enrollment?
On November 1, the seventh open enrollment period begins for marketplace coverage under the Affordab...
Preparations for the Affordable Care Act’s 7th Open Enrollment Season: Georgetown’s Updated Navigator Resource Guide
As August winds to a close, Georgetown CHIR's faculty are focused not on pumpkin lattes and back-to-...
Court Strikes Down a Trump Administration Rule Designed to Circumvent the Affordable Care Act
On March 28, a federal district court struck down the core of the Trump administration’s new regul...
What Does the Latest Federal Court Decision Mean for Association Health Plans – and the States that Regulate Them?
On March 28, 2019, a federal district court invalidated the Trump administration's rule encouraging ...
Affordable Care Act Back in the Spotlight: Build on its Progress or Scrap it Entirely?
It is hard to find a starker example of the different approaches our two political parties take to h...
House Hearings Shed Light on a Key Policy Priority: Protecting People with Pre-Existing Conditions
After becoming a rallying cry in the midterm elections, pre-existing condition protections have take...
Short-Term Health Plans Sold Through Out-of-State Associations Threaten Consumer Protections
The expansion of short-term policies has raised concerns that they may be deceptively marketed, wit...
It’s All About the Rating: Touted “Benefits” of Association Health Plans Ignore Key Facts
A recent Washington Post article touted the emergence of association health plans under recent Trump...
In the Wake of New Association Health Plan Standards, States are Exercising Authority to Protect Consumers, Providers, and Markets
States have begun to respond to the Trump administration's new rules for association health plans wi...
Virginia’s Enrollment Season Perfect Storm
Across the country, states are yet again dealing with policy changes just before the fall open enrol...
The Trump Administration’s Association Health Plans Emerge: What Early Announcements Tell Us About this New Market
This past summer, the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a regulation calling for the expansion of ...
House Farm Bill Supports AHPs with Federal Grants—Following in the Footsteps of the ACA’s CO-OP Program
The Farm Bill currently being debated in a House-Senate conference committee enables the Secretary o...
When Policy and Politics Conflict: Challenges to State-level Market Stabilization Efforts
Within the last month, Delaware has adopted two policies with diametrically different effects on the...
Impact of Association Health Plans on Consumers and Markets Will Depend on State Approaches
In June, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final regulation that implements President Trump’...
Bracing for an Affordable Care Act Enrollment Season Without Navigators: Risks for Consumers and the Market
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on July 10, 2018 that they would fund up to...
To Understand How Consumers Are Faring in the Individual Health Insurance Markets, Watch the States
Through both inaction and design, federal policymakers have put the onus on states to ensure access ...
A Main Reason New York and Massachusetts Will Sue the Administration Over the Final AHP Rule? Fraud and Abuse
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood (D) and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) ...
What’s in the Association Health Plan Final Rule? Implications for States
The Trump administration has released new rules to expand the availability of association health pla...
New Georgetown-Society of Actuaries’ Report: Estimating the Impact of Association Health Plans on the Individual Market
The Trump administration is expected to shortly finalize new rules expanding the availability of ass...
The Future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump: Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Association Health Plan Rule. Part V: Departments of Insurance
In this final blog in our series reviewing stakeholder comments on the Department of Labor’s propo...
The Future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump: Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Association Health Plan Rule. Part IV: Business Groups
In a recent proposed rule from the Department of Labor, the Trump administration has proposed major ...
The Future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump: Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Association Health Plan Rule. Part III: Insurers
The U.S. Department of Labor received over 900 comments on its proposed rule, which aims to promote ...
New Georgetown – Urban Institute Report Finds Health Plans Bracing for More Federal Uncertainty Over Affordable Care Act
Researchers from Georgetown CHIR and the Urban Institute have released a new report documenting the ...
The Future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump: Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Association Health Plan Rule. Part II: Consumer Advocates
Over 900 comment letters were submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor in response to the proposed ...
The Future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump: Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Association Health Plan Rule. Part I: State Attorneys General
The Trump administration has proposed major changes to the regulation of Association Health Plans (A...
Making Short-Term Plans a Long Term Coverage Option: Risks to Consumers and to Markets
The White House and Secretary of Health & Human Services have recently called for making short-term ...
Coalition Demands Crucial Information About Association Health Plan Rulemaking
On March 1st, a coalition of stakeholders, including Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insu...
Association Health Plans: Maintaining State Authority is Critical to Avoid Fraud, Insolvency, and Market Instability
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration issued a proposed regulation that would allow individua...
Association Health Plan Proposed Rule: Summary and Implications for States
In a recent brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health & Value Strategies program, ...
2018 Outlook: What Health Insurance Experts at CHIR Will be Watching
Last year brought a lot of surprises in health care policy, and 2018 is shaping up to be more of the...
When the Individual Market Dies, Where will People Go? A Eulogy
The individual market may not be dead yet, but it soon will be, thanks to recent actions by the Trum...
A Blow to Working Class Coverage
On the heels of multiple failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump attempts...
Trump’s Executive Order: Can Association Health Plans Accomplish What Congress Could Not?
In the wake of failed Congressional efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President...
“Small Business Health Plans”: Undermining States’ Authority and a Recipe for Fewer Plan Choices and Higher Premiums
The U.S. Senate stands poised to debate a bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, that would not o...
What’s Going on in Tennessee? One Possible Reason for Its Affordable Care Act Challenges
Recently the Governor of Tennessee observed that his state was “ground zero” for insurers pullin...
House Proposal to Promote Association Health Plans Poses Risks for Insurance Markets, Consumers
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to promote federally certified association health pl...
With all Eyes on AHCA, House Advances 3 Bills that Could Reduce Benefits, Raise Costs for People in Employer-Based Coverage
While all eyes were on the House reconciliation bill to repeal and replace parts of the ACA, another...
News from the Feds: Latest Round of FAQs on ACA Implementation
In the last few days the federal government has released new guidance for insurance companies relati...