Iowa Republican Congressman David Young is calling on the Trump Administration to provide Iowa with a quick answer on a proposed fix for the state’s individual insurance market. The state insurance commissioner has come up with a “stop gap” measure he believes will help up to 72-thousand Iowans buy individual policies for 2018, but The Washington Post is reporting President Trump has directed federal officials to reject Iowa’s waiver request. Young says he hopes the administration will APPROVE the plan.
Young says the Trump administration needs to give Iowa officials “certain flexibilities and some autonomy” or else the individual insurance market will collapse.
A spokeswoman for Governor Kim Reynolds says the state has had no signal from the White House or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid that the state’s ObamaCare waiver request will be rejected.
