Idaho aims to test ACA exemptions

Idaho wants to offer an insurance plan that could skirt provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told a U.S. House Energy& Commerce Committee last week that he is considering whether to allow Blue Cross of Idaho implement its new Freedom Blue plan, which the insurer says lowers premiums by 50 percent, The Wall Street Journal reports. If Azar and Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services director Seema Verma OK the move, other insurers might follow in …
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