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A Trump-era regulation that expanded the availability of Association Health Plans, and did not comply with certain consumer protections of the Affordable Health Care Act, has been rescinded by the Employee Benefits Security Administration.
The final Department of Labor rule issued this week reverses lax criteria the Trump administration finalized that made it easier for a group or association of employers to be treated as the "employer" when offering multiple-employer group health insurance, which effectively allowed more employers to offer health insurance coverage that evades several critical ACA consumer protections.
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