{"id":21700,"date":"2014-10-22T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21700"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:43:06","slug":"insurance-companies-got-cms-okay-to-cancel-policies-if-obamacare-subsidies-invalidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21700\/insurance-companies-got-cms-okay-to-cancel-policies-if-obamacare-subsidies-invalidated\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Companies Got CMS Okay to Cancel Policies If ObamaCare Subsidies Invalidated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmy Lotven of the trade publication <em>Inside Health Reform<\/em> reports that before insurers agreed to sell coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\u2019s health insurance Exchanges in 2015, they demanded that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explicitly agree to let them cancel policies if any of the Halbig cases succeed in blocking the subsidies that carriers had been receiving in the 36 states whose ObamaCare Exchanges were not, as [ObamaCare] requires before subsidies can flow, \u2018established by the State\u2019\u201d, writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelcannon\/2014\/10\/21\/insurers-demand-for-a-halbig-contingency-plan-demonstrates-need-for-immediate-scotus-review\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Michael Cannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll recall that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/2333-new-fed-court-strikes-down-key-obamacare-subsidy \" target=\"_blank\">big fight<\/a> over whether the Obama administration is blatantly violating its own law by making subsidies available to people who don\u2019t qualify under the statute. And, as Cannon points out, making illegal subsidies available also subjects up to 57 million individuals and employers to illegal penalties under ObamaCare\u2019s individual and employer mandates.<\/p>\n<p>That insurance companies demanded the right to cancel policies relying on subsidies shows how concerned the industry is at being blamed for high-cost coverage when and if the government\u2019s policy is ruled illegal. That the Obama administration agreed indicates the strength of the argument that even the executive branch should follow the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmy Lotven of the trade publication Inside Health Reform reports that before insurers agreed to sell coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\u2019s health insurance Exchanges in 2015, they demanded that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explicitly agree to let them cancel policies if any of the Halbig cases succeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,3308,1829,1009,35,2249],"class_list":["post-21700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21700"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21709,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700\/revisions\/21709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}