New York Puts Obamacare Shields Into Law, Averts Medicaid Cuts

The New York Legislature set the major consumer protections of the Affordable Care Act into state law in a bid to preserve them against Trump administration steps to roll them back.

The state’s codification of the federal law’s main requirements—passed as part of the $175.5 billion omnibus budget legislation that was due April 1—included a ban on limiting coverage for pre-existing conditions, a set of essential benefits, and other state health insurance exchange marketplace provisions.

“We’ve stepped in and protected New Yorkers from Trump’s rollback of Obamacare,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said April 2 in an interview with WNYC ...