A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration effort to underminepart of the Affordable Care Act
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration effort to undermine part of the Affordable Care Act.
On Wednesday, the issue had been the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid ― in particular, the Trump administration’s support of “work requirements” for people who get insurance through the program. In a pair of rulings, the judge declared that such requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky were “arbitrary and capricious” because officials had not demonstrated they further Medicaid’s basic mission, “the provision of medical coverage to the needy.
AHPs are not subject to the same regulations that the Affordable Care Act places on insurance that individuals and small businesses buy on their own. They don’t have to cover all 10 of the law’s “essential benefits,” for example, and they have a lot more freedom to vary premiums based on factors like age, occupation or gender.
“Any savings that AHPs offer to healthier-than-average firms and workers likely come at the expense of higher costs for sicker-than-average firms and workers who remain in the ACA small-group and individual markets,” Sarah Lueck, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, explained earlier this month.
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