The rule would punish companies for knowingly overcharging customers by issuing $5,000 fines for each instance of price-gouging. It is the fourth time the Trump administration has delayed the rule, which is now set to begin in July.
“HHS continues to believe that the delay of the effective date provides regulated entities sufficient time to implement the requirements of the rule, as well as allowing a more deliberate process of considering alternative and supplemental regulatory provisions, and to allow for sufficient time for additional rule-making,” an HHS spokesman told reporters, according to The Hill.
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