Expert: Axing Short-Term Plan Reg Could Offset ACA Subsidy Boost

A health policy expert last week suggested to House Appropriations health subcommittee members that revoking the Trump administration’s rule that promotes short-term health plans could help offset the costs of removing the Affordable Care Act’s so-called subsidy cliff which several Democratic lawmakers have proposed in various reform bills. Brookings Institution Fellow Aviva Aron-Dine, one of several experts who testified at the Feb. 6 hearing on the Trump administration’s changes to the law, pointed out that the RAND Corporation has estimated...