Republicans are considering giving President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services less power over whether a state can opt out of health insurance regulations than the agency has now.
A draft deal to let states opt out of certain Obamacare insurance regulations released Thursday appears to not give the Department of Health and Human Services much authority over the waiver. The regulations on the table are mandates that force insurers to cover 10 essential health benefits and adopt a price control that prevents them from charging sicker people more than healthy people.
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