{"id":9572,"date":"2018-02-15T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2018-02-15T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:27:28","slug":"idaho-blue-cross-jumps-into-controversial-market-for-plans-that-bypass-aca-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9572","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Blue Cross Jumps Into Controversial Market For Plans That Bypass ACA Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s barely been two weeks since Idaho regulators said they would allow the sale of health insurance that does not meet all of the Affordable Care Act\u2019s requirements \u2014 a controversial step some experts said would likely draw legal scrutiny and, potentially, federal fines for any insurer that jumped in.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Blue Cross of Idaho unveiled a menu of new health plans that break with federal health law rules in several ways, including setting premiums based on applicants\u2019 health. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/idaho-blue-cross-jumps-into-controversial-market-for-plans-that-bypass-aca-rules\/?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60707172&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9UZqz2SrjLIE_vAp7N-JsZ6kRMj7RXXYKEdq_PPDK7WW-fSfsCYRxrHxAToPDaEYVaFA017PpdOeYXlwIdHgRt6awq7A&amp;_hsmi=60707172\">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: 400; 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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