I have heard that Trump will do EO to allow insurance across state lines in the next week or so. Evidently, he has this power based on the ACA. Anyone else heard this?
>>> I have heard that Trump will do EO to allow insurance across state lines.
States already possess the authority to sanction sales across their borders, and to define the conditions for such sales.
In addition to this generic state authority, Section 1333 of Obamacare authorizes “health care choice compacts” across states. Five states have passed legislation allowing insurance plans that cross state lines: Rhode Island, Wyoming, Georgia, Kentucky and Maine.
Georgia’s law has been in effect since 2011, yet no insurer has yet offered an out-of-state policy there — or in any of the other four states.
If this repeals the ACA then he'd need the power under this bill and it doesn't appear to be there. But I doubt it was part of the ACA to begin with.