Politico July 7, 2023
BIDEN ON 2018 RULE — President Joe Biden wants short-term health care plans to last only three months instead of three years, POLITICO’s Robert King reports.
HHS, the Treasury Department and the Department of Labor will release several proposed rules Friday overturning a regulation from 2018 governing the plans. These short-term plans offer skimpy and limited — but cheaper — coverage meant to act as a stopgap between long-term insurance. Biden fulfills a request from Democratic lawmakers and patient advocacy groups who wanted him to act on the plans for years.
“Short-term plans are intended to provide temporary coverage as people transition from one source of coverage to another,” said Neera Tanden, White House domestic policy adviser, on a call...
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