Administration officials are reportedly looking specifically at ways to loosen health insurance regulations and promote wider use of a form of insurance known as association health plans. But association health plans historically have also been a way to circumvent regulations on health plans. More likely, the Trump administration will argue it has authority to allow some health plans, like association health plans, to get out from some requirements in the law. Second, allowing less comprehensive health plans back into the market makes health coverage more expensive for sick people. Legislation in the early 2000s to allow more association health plans drew opposition from more than 450 national and local organizations around the country.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 10, 2017 20:15 UTC