California Legislature bans short-term health insurance

[Swordsmyth]

The California Legislature has passed a bill banning the sale of short-term health insurance plans — a type of insurance the Trump administration is seeking to expand.
The bill, SB910, authored by State Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), was approved by the Senate on Monday and the Assembly last week. It will need the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown to become law.
Short-term plans are generally cheaper but do not need to cover all the benefits required under the Affordable Care Act, such as preventive care, essential health benefits and protections for people with pre-existing conditions. An estimated 10,000 people in California are currently enrolled in such plans.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this month finalized a rule extending the amount of time consumers can be on short-term plans from three months to almost 12 months, after which they can be renewed for up to three years. However, the HHS rule allows states to regulate the sale of such plans on their own terms.


California had long capped the amount of time consumers could be on short-term plans to six months; the Obama administration limited it even further, to three months. Hernandez’s bill eliminates the sale of such plans altogether, for any amount of time.


If Brown signs the bill, California would join a handful of states, including New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York, that have severely restricted or banned short-term plans, according to the California Health Care Foundation.

More at: https://www.sfgate.com/business/arti...p?t=30a24672c4

[Schifference]

It is best to restrict what insurance is made available to the public. Do not let the consumer decide. Better to have no insurance than temporary insurance.

[nobody's_hero]

Wonder why democrats hate poor people so much.

[Anti Federalist]

Wonder why democrats hate poor people so much.

Well, most poor people would like to be rich people, or at least comfortable people.

This presents a problem for the Bolshevik left.

Comfortable people don't need them.

[Brian4Liberty]

California Legislature bans short-term health insurance

Fixed. Do that in conjunction with severely deregulating and opening up the ability of doctors to open new small cash only clinics, and at least it might work. There should be as many clinics as there are Starbucks and McDonalds.

[Krugminator2]

The Pro-choice Party- except on everything that isn't abortion.

[oyarde]

Those legislatures should be put to the stake by the citizens . Until then this will continue .