But short-term plans are generally not available to people with pre-existing conditions and wouldn’t cover the expenses of people with some serious illnesses anyway. If short-term plans were to draw off a substantial number of relatively healthy customers, they would drive up the price of traditional, fully regulated insurance plans even more. “This is the Trump administration’s end run around Congress,” Sabrina Corlette, research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, told HuffPost. Obamacare allowed insurers to keep selling such plans, but it also gave the federal government authority to regulate them tightly. Regulations on short-term plans were also meant to protect consumers.

Source: Huffington Post February 20, 2018 14:54 UTC