Experts, AAFP, ACP criticize Trump’s ‘Small Business Health Plan’ proposal

The U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule to increase opportunities for employment-based health insurance to small businesses seems to do more harm than good, experts and medical societies told Healio Family Medicine.
Among the concerns were that it undercuts the minimum standards of coverage established under the Affordable Care Act while potentially forcing practices to navigate the bureaucracy of new health care providers.
On Jan. 5, the Federal Register published a proposed rule that, according to a press release, would enable employers and sole proprietors to join to form a Small

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