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Expanded association health plans could cover 600,000 in 2025: Congressional Budget Office

The agency estimates a House AHP measure would add $2.9 billion to the federal budget deficit over 10 years.

By Allison Bell | November 13, 2024 at 04:11 PM

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Association health plans created using regulations developed during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House could provide coverage for about 600,000 people, according to analysts at the Congressional Budget Office.AHPs could cover about 120,000 uninsured people and about 480,000 people who previously had individual or small-group coverage.Some of the enrollees would be self-employed people and many others would be enrollees in small employer plans, the analysts predict.The analysts used those assumptions when analyzing what a House AHP measure could do to the federal budget deficit. The suggested that the AHP program expansion could lead to $900 million in extra federal spending from 2025 through 2034 and cut federal income tax revenue by about $2 billion over that 10-year period.The administration of President Joe Biden has blocked implementation of the Trump-era AHP regulations. The House measure, a resolution introduced by Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Minn., would overturn the Biden administration’s action and let the AHP regulations take effect.

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