The signed bills include a measure that will define essential health benefits for the healthcare law’s benchmark health plans and a reform of the small employer market, which will prevent small businesses from enduring health premium hikes if employees get sick.
The vetoed legislation, which also was opposed by health insurers, would have reformed the individual insurance market through new consumer protections. The vetoed bills had provisions that would have prevented insurers from denying or discriminating for pre-existing conditions in the individual market.
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