As Dems Push HHS to Limit Short-Term Plans, Market Impact Remains Murky

Amid mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups, a rule could be coming as soon as April that rolls back Trump administration regulations expanding the availability of short-term, limited-duration insurance (STLDI) plans. Health policy experts say health insurers are likely to have varying views about such a regulation, and its effect on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces is tough to predict given how little data is available about STLDI.

Among “plans that had invested in the marketplaces, I think they had a lot of concern about the Trump administration short-term plan rule…[but] there are others that were deciding to invest in short-term plans,” says Sabrina Corlette, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “So I’m not sure there’s unanimity in the industry on whether Biden rolling back the Trump rule is a good thing or a bad thing.”

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Leslie Small

Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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