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(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

When the Trump administration in June issued rules making it easier for small employers to band together to buy health insurance, \u201cwe started looking immediately,\u201d recalled Scott Lyon, a top executive at the Small Business Association of Michigan.<\/p>\n

Although he offered traditional small-group health insurance to his association\u2019s employees and members, Lyon liked adding a new option for both: potentially less expensive coverage through an association health plan, which doesn\u2019t have to meet all the rules of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

Now, a few months in, \u201cwe\u2019ve got 400 companies and a couple of thousand workers signed up,\u201d said Lyon last week.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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