Decisions about whether to let consumers keep individual health policies that violate the new federal coverage rules are now in the hands of state insurance commissioners. And a handful of them are not happy about it.
"Now the state insurance commissioners and the insurance companies are going to look like the bad guys, not the president," Christopher Condeluci, a former Senate Finance Committee tax counsel who is now a benefits compliance lawyer at Venable, said Friday in an interview.
President Obama announced Thursday that the administration wants to let individuals keep some non-grandfathered policies that violate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act quality standards.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
