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Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
Sally C. Pipes
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance.
But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like.
Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health benefits and that bar insurers from charging older enrollees any more than three times what they charge younger ones.
Click to read the full article in the Washington Examiner.
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