Michael Hiltzik: Junky healthcare meets resistance
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2018
4 minutes
California, Illinois and other states have begun pushing back against efforts by the Trump administration to expand the availability of junk health insurance plans, which would undermine the Affordable Care Act's consumer protections and marketplace stability.
In Sacramento, the California Senate last week approved a measure that would completely outlaw short-term health plans, which it defines as any plan with a term of less than 12 months. Authoritative ACA tracker Charles Gaba reports that California might become the first state to forbid short-term plans entirely.
On Friday, the Illinois Senate passed and sent to the House a bill that would limit short-term
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