The Department of Labor’s proposal, released in January, would allow more flexibility for small business and self-employed individuals to group together to form association health plans, which could purchase insurance that does not fully comply with ACA requirements. The comment letter said this proposal purposefully undermines the ACA.
“These changes would increase the risk of fraud and harm to consumers; would undermine the current small group and individual health insurance markets; and are inconsistent with the text of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the ACA,” the letter reads.
The attorneys general who signed the letter were Maura Healey (Mass.), Eric Schneiderman (N.Y.), Xavier Becerra (Calif.), George Jepsen (Conn.), Matthew Denn (Del.), Karl Racine (Washington, D.C.), Russell Suzuki (Hawaii), Lisa Madigan (Ill.), Tom Miller (Iowa), Janet Mills (Maine), Brian Frosh (Md.), Gurbir Grewal (N.J.), Hector Balderas (N.M.), Ellen Rosenblum (Ore.), Josh Shapiro (Penn.), Thomas Donovan (Vt.), and Mark Herring (Va.).
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