HHS Refusal to Reopen Exchanges for Covid Irrational, City Says

The Health and Human Services Department’s refusal to open a special enrollment period for people to buy health insurance on federally operated Obamacare exchanges during the Covid-19 pandemic must be set aside, Chicago told a federal court in Washington.

HHS’s administrative record reveals that it didn’t try to estimate how many people might benefit from reopening the enrollment period or determine how an SEP could help them, health-care providers, or the general public, the city said Monday in a brief urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enter a pretrial judgment declaring HHS acted arbitrarily and ...