{"id":3828,"date":"2017-03-27T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirblog.org\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:58:25","slug":"house-proposal-to-promote-association-health-plans-poses-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/house-proposal-to-promote-association-health-plans-poses-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"House Proposal to Promote Association Health Plans Poses Risks for Insurance Markets, Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kevin Lucia and Sabrina Corlette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the nation is focusing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2mAsBiT\" target=\"_blank\">American Health Care Act<\/a>, the most recent proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), another Republican proposal is quickly advancing through Congress.* The <a href=\"https:\/\/edworkforce.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/1101ans_xml.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Health Fairness Act<\/a>, H.R. 1101, allows small employers to band together and buy health insurance though federally certified associations. Despite its name, the bill would have a considerable and likely detrimental impact on the private health insurance market and undermine the ability of states to protect small employers and their employees.<\/p>\n<p>In their most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/blog\/2017\/mar\/house-proposal-to-promote-association-health-plans-poses-risks-for-insurance-markets-consumers\">post<\/a> for the Commonwealth Fund&#8217;s To the Point blog, CHIR experts Kevin Lucia and Sabrina Corlette review the policy goals behind the association health plan bill and potential risks for small businesses. Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/blog\/2017\/mar\/house-proposal-to-promote-association-health-plans-poses-risks-for-insurance-markets-consumers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*The bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 22, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to promote federally certified association health plans (AHPs) on March 22, 2017. Widely seen as a &#8220;second phase&#8221; of Affordable Care Act repeal, the AHP proposal poses significant risks for small employers and would hinder states&#8217; ability to protect their consumers. In their latest post for The Commonwealth Fund, Kevin Lucia and Sabrina Corlette take a look at the bill and what it would mean for the small business health insurance market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[244,40,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}