Republicans Revive Employer Health Insurance Bills Under Trump

House Republicans touted a pair of newly re-introduced bills at a Wednesday subcommittee hearing that signal a return to President Donald Trump’s first-term attempts to boost non-traditional employer health benefit plans.

The measures would expand association health plans for small employers and limit state regulation of stop-loss insurance. Both were part of a broader insurance bill House Republicans passed in 2023 to expand options outside of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, but the bill was never taken up in the Senate.

“The Biden-Harris administration’s inflationary agenda, intent on tying the hands of employers with costly and burdensome regulations, contributed to ...