The state of Idaho is attempting to lower insurance premiums by proposing policies that scrap key provisions required by the Affordable Care Act. If you want to charge higher premiums to people with preexisting conditions, anything from cancer to arthritis, you can start doing that. Obamacare requires insurance companies to charge everybody sick or healthy the same prices and it sets up this possibility that you could have a state where Obamacare exists but is not followed.
A coalition of 20 states filed a lawsuit claiming Obamacare is unconstitutional yesterday. Vox’s Sarah Kliff says that’s just the latest pushback on the Affordable Care Act. Idaho has been quietly allowing insurance plans that don’t comply with Obamacare’s rules, and the Trump administration hasn’t been doing anything to stop it. Experts say if the federal government doesn’t intervene, other red states will likely follow in Idaho’s footsteps.
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