Association health plans touted by Trump under state scrutiny

Mike Pieciak, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerThe federal government is touting new regulations designed to make health insurance more accessible and affordable, but Vermont officials are concerned they’ll have the opposite effect.
So even as President Donald Trump’s administration rolls out an expansion of “association health plans,” the state has begun drafting new rules to ensure that such plans are solvent and of