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- Seema Verma, the administrator for HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, blocked a move by the state of Idaho that would have undermined Obamacare.
- Verma said that Idaho’s new plan to let insurers sell plans that did not comply with Obamacare ws not legally permissible.
- Health policy experts were closely watching the Idaho situation because it could have opened the door for other states to flaunt the rules of Obamacare.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced it will block a new health care initiative by the state of Idaho, preventing the state from circumventing key Obamacare rules.
Seema Verma, the administrator for HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a release Thursday that the governor of Idaho was informed of the decision.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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