States may soon get more leeway to make changes to Obamacare that could affect the comprehensiveness of coverage. “We are expecting a new enforcement rule out soon,” Joel White, president of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, said at a recent Capitol Hill briefing I covered.
Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act enables states to ask for permission from the Department of Health and Human Services to make changes to the ACA, including changes to requirements on health plans and the ACA marketplaces, as well as changes to the ACA-mandated essential health benefits coverage and to the financial assistance system.
