Proposed NBPP Ends Push For Standardized Plans On Healthcare.gov

HHS wants to stop setting cost parameters for standardized plans offered on the federal health exchange-- also known as Simple Choice plans -- that are popular on state-based exchanges, effectively ending the plans as of 2019. The Obama administration put these parameters in place for the federally facilitated marketplace starting in 2017. Insurance experts say ultimately consumers would be the losers in this change because the Obama-era mandate helped simplify options for people and also offered a better option for...