US health insurance giants Senate and America’s Health Insurance Plans have poured scorn on a provision, sponsored by Republican senator Ted Cruz, for the party's beleaguered health bill. The provision, known as the Consumer Freedom Option, would allow insurers to sell plans that did not carry the Affordable Care Act mandates, as long as they carried Obamacare-compliant plans too. In a rare joint letter to Blue Cross Blue Shield leaders, the insurers said Cruz's proposal "creates two systems of insurance for healthy and sick people", and called it "simply unworkable in any form".
US health insurance giants Blue Cross Blue Shield and America’s Health Insurance Plans have poured scorn on a provision, sponsored by Republican senator Ted Cruz, for the party's beleaguered health bill. The provision, known as the Consumer Freedom Option, would allow insurers to sell plans that did not carry the Affordable Care Act mandates, as long as they carried Obamacare-compliant plans too. In a rare joint letter to Senate leaders, the insurers said Cruz's proposal "creates two systems of insurance for healthy and sick people", and called it "simply unworkable in any form".