Trump Jumps the Gun (Again) on Health Plans
by Lori Robertson
Jul 27, 2018
3 minutes
President Donald Trump touted “record business” for new health insurance plans under a federal rule that hasn’t yet gone into effect. In fact, since at least December 2017, he has periodically, and prematurely, boasted that “millions” of people are already signing up for these association health plans.
The federal rule pertaining to those plans takes effect Aug. 20, and it doesn’t start applying to association plans until Sept. 1.
At a , the president singled out Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, whose department is responsible for the new
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