State Regulators Mixed On Short-Term Plans -- Some Poised To Restrict, Others To Embrace Them

With the Trump administration on track to finalize regulations allowing longer-duration short-term plans back on the insurance market, key approval and enforcement decisions will now fall upon state regulators, some of whom are poised to restrict, while others gear up to welcome, the non-ACA compliant plans. Washington state's longtime insurance commissioner, Mike Kriedler, said he will use his authority to kick off a rulemaking process that would “prohibit these skinny plans from destabilizing Washington’s health insurance market.” “Just like the...