{"id":7284,"date":"2017-07-01T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7284"},"modified":"2017-07-01T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:05:11","slug":"ted-cruz-pitches-bcra-amendment-to-allow-deregulated-health-plans-on-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7284","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz pitches BCRA amendment to allow deregulated health plans on exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to win over conservative holdouts, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, floated an amendment to the Senate&#8217;s Better Care Reconciliation Act that would allow payers to offer noncompliant plans on the ACA exchanges, according to a report from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ted-cruz-healthcare-bill-amendment-preexisting-conditions-2017-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a>.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/hospital-management-administration\/ted-cruz-pitches-bcra-amendment-to-allow-deregulated-health-plans-on-exchanges.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In an effort to win over conservative holdouts, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, floated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}