NJ Spotlight published the following article on March 7, 2014. To read the full article, click here.
INSURANCE PLANS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH ACA GET THREE-YEAR REPRIEVE
MEIR RINDE | MARCH 7, 2014
The Obama administration decided this week that people with skimpy health insurance plans can keep them for up to three more years, a move that drew heat from Republicans and could affect thousands of New Jersey residents who have small-group insurance through a United Healthcare subsidiary.
Still, the move is expected to have minimal impact in New Jersey. That’s because while Gov. Chris Christie said in November that the state would leave it to insurers to decide if they wanted to continue offering transitional plans that did not fully comply with the Affordable Care Act, most insurers declined to do so this year.
The decision to allow insurers to continue selling plans that do not fully comply with the ACA was widely described as an effort to shield Democratic candidatesfrom political attacks tying them to the ACA. The next wave of plan cancellations had been expected to come in October, just before the fall congressional elections.