The MacArthur Amendment in the AHCA would also have allowed states to change the definition of essential health benefits, so
skimpier plans could be sold.
That could risk segmenting the market and sending it into a death spiral: Healthy people would flock to
the skimpier plans while sick people would buy Obamacare coverage, driving up costs for the latter.
McConnell's latest version aimed to satisfy both camps, by incorporating language by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas allowing insurers to sell
skimpy plans alongside more robust ones, and by adding billions to treat opioid addiction and to defray consumer costs.
Not exact matches
Under the proposed rule, people could enroll in low - cost
plans with
skimpier benefits for up to 12 months, an increase from the current three - month limit imposed by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
First Minister Alex Salmond says his childcare
plans are worth thousands while critics say the figures are
skimpy.
I know every one of us are
planning for summer outfits but for me, well not that much since I can't wear
skimpy clothes and bikinis to show off in the beach.
Skimpy lesson
plans greet him more often.
Workers and early retirees offered only
skimpy employer
plans can shop for their own coverage on the exchanges.
BY BARBARA FEDER OSTROV Prudential Financial Inc., one of the nation's largest life insurers,
plans to announce this week that it will offer traditional individual policies to eligible people living with HIV, a condition that for decades has excluded most of them from any but the
skimpiest of coverage, company officials said.