The Labor Department plans to revisit an invalidated Trump-era regulation on small business health plans through notice-and-comment rulemaking, according to a filing in the suit over the rule that has been in limbo for years.
The 2018 rule was aimed at allowing small businesses and self-employed workers to band together to obtain group health plans that are less expensive—and less robust—than plans governed by the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge largely invalidated the rule in 2019, calling it an impermissible “end-run” around the ACA’s protections.
The department appealed that decision to the US Court of Appeals for the DC ...
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