The Trump administration is opening up association health plans to more employers, including the self-employed, in a proposed rule released Jan. 4.
The rule would allow small employers and sole proprietors to offer plans that are subject to Obamacare’s less-onerous rules for large group health plans, a senior DOL official told Bloomberg Law on condition of anonymity. AHPs are currently subject to Obamacare’s more stringent small group market requirements, including that they provide “essential health benefits.”
The move comes at the direction of President Donald Trump, who in an Oct. 12 executive order directed the Labor Department to issue regulations ...
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