Short-term health insurance is a Band-Aid that helps consumers while Congress does nothing
(WorldNews Health)

It´s back to the future in the private health insurance market. I applaud the Trump administration´s new rule to allow short-term health insurance plans to once again provide coverage for up to a year. The move increases consumer choice. But it also represents one more way in which the Obamacare market is becoming a patchwork like the one that existed before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. What Congress was unable to achieve in one fell swoop - the dismantling of the ACA - is happening in slow motion, step-by-step. The individual mandate that required most Americans to have health insurance will effectively disappear next year. The availability of alternative coverage options,...