Employment Law Project Issues Statement on Association Health Plans
"Today, the
"As a result, the administration has opened the floodgates to 'fake' health insurance, fueling the potential for a new era of widespread health insurance fraud and abuse.
"This new rule undermines the ACA in several ways:
* It allows AHPs to cherry-pick what risks to cover and what benefits to offer, siphoning younger and healthier individuals away from state-regulated markets, and leaving millions of sicker individuals at risk of losing their health insurance.
* It exempts AHPs from the ACA consumer protections that apply to small businesses and individuals.
* It permits AHPs to discriminate based on age, sex, occupation and a variety of other factors.
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"The real effect of this action will not be to make less costly, less regulated insurance broadly available. Instead, it will create winners and losers among small employers, possibly benefitting somewhat larger groups of the young and the healthy, while likely unleashing a new wave of fraud on the vulnerable and threatening the very underpinnings of the ACA."
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