{"id":5740,"date":"2017-01-31T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:09:16","slug":"demand-for-popular-short-term-insurance-plans-could-surge-if-health-law-is-relaxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5740","title":{"rendered":"Demand For Popular Short-Term Insurance Plans Could Surge If Health Law Is Relaxed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Short-term health plans have been around for decades, bridging coverage gaps for people who are between jobs or have recently graduated from school, among other things. After the health law passed, some people gravitated toward them because they were willing to trade comprehensive coverage for a cheaper sticker price \u2014\u00a0even if it meant paying a tax penalty for not having the comprehensive coverage required in the law. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/sales-of-short-term-health-policies-surge-1460328539\" target=\"_blank\">Sales increased<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/demand-for-popular-short-term-insurance-plans-could-surge-if-health-law-is-relaxed\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=41652980&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_a9V4uJgaH4mXlu-Dzu3qjEscm_o9JjSItIeXb3aCAlcDCw721j6bkEggV4aUoWSD_ISiAGAshNUehuGMbC7Cwaehl9A&amp;_hsmi=41652980\" target=\"_blank\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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