The electronic front page of the NYTimes this morning:
The skull is about immigrant border crossing deaths -not the AHCA
In related AHCA news, the Wall Street Journal reports that the AHCA could mean the return of lifetime limits to employer sponsored health plans.
The skull is about immigrant border crossing deaths -not the AHCA
In related AHCA news, the Wall Street Journal reports that the AHCA could mean the return of lifetime limits to employer sponsored health plans.
The ACA prevents employer plans from putting annual limits on the amount of care they will cover, and it bars lifetime limits on the 10 essential benefits. But in 2011, the Obama administration issued guidance stating that employers aren’t bound by the benefits mandated by their state and can pick from another state’s list of required benefits. That guidance was mostly meaningless because the ACA established a national set of essential benefits.
Under the House bill, large employers could choose the benefit requirements from any state—including those that are allowed to lower their benchmarks under a waiver, health analysts said. By choosing a waiver state, employers looking to lower their costs could impose lifetime limits and eliminate the out-of-pocket cost cap from their plans under the GOP legislation.
A company wouldn’t have to do business in a state to choose that state’s benefits level, analysts said. The company could just choose a state to match no matter where it is based.
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