Association Insurance Pushes On Despite Court Ruling

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)

When the Trump administration in June issued rules making it easier for small employers to band together to buy health insurance, “we started looking immediately,” recalled Scott Lyon, a top executive at the Small Business Association of Michigan.

Although he offered traditional small-group health insurance to his association’s employees and members, Lyon liked adding a new option for both: potentially less expensive coverage through an association health plan, which doesn’t have to meet all the rules of the Affordable Care Act.

Now, a few months in, “we’ve got 400 companies and a couple of thousand workers signed up,” said Lyon last week.  Continue reading article here…

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