HHS Rejects Ohio’s Request to Eliminate Obamacare Mandate (1)

Ohio’s request for an exemption from Obamacare’s individual mandate was rejected by the Trump administration, at least temporarily.

The March 30 application from the Ohio Department of Insurance doesn’t include any provisions for providing coverage that meets the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in a May 17 letter to the Ohio agency. The CMS letter, signed by Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight Director Randy Pate, said the CMS is “happy to work with states to revise and re-submit their waiver applications.”

Ohio was the first state to ask for ...