Opinion: Short-term health insurance should worry you even if you don’t need it
A policy move in Washington that seems unrelated to you, like loosening rules on short-term health insurance, could matter to you more than you might think.
If you have health insurance through your employer, you probably glossed over news stories this summer about the Trump administration’s new rules to expand the availability of “short-term” health insurance plans. These plans are used by a few million people. But they could negatively affect everyone who uses hospitals.
The “easier rules” extend the allowable length of these plans from 90 days to one
