Sen. Alexander Issues Statement on Proposed Association Health Plans
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Chairman Alexander made his comments at today's
Alexander continued: "Last month, I went to the Chick-fil-A on
"Here's how: The Administration's proposal would take down barriers to allow more self-employed Americans and small businesses to band together in what is called an Association Health Plan, or an AHP. By banding together in an AHP, employers could reduce the cost of providing health insurance to their employees through spreading the administrative costs, bargaining for better deals from insurers, and creating a way to bring in more healthy people, which brings down costs for everyone."
Alexander concluded: "This proposed rule would mean access to lower-cost health insurance opportunities for small businesses. For example--the proposed rule would allow small local restaurants or retailers in a rural area to all participate in a single Association Health Plan to be able to offer insurance to their employees.
"For the first time, self-employed Americans would have the ability to band together and obtain health insurance on similar terms to large businesses. That presents a new opportunity for hardworking farmers, gig economy workers like Uber and
"The proposed rule would also allow the formation of a new nationwide plan for all workers in an industry--for example, all of the local bakery owners from
"I commend Secretary Acosta and the
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