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Committee forwards bill to repeal small‑employer reinsurance program to House floor
Summary
Lawmakers voted to send House Bill 116 to the floor. Sponsors and the Idaho Department of Insurance said the small‑employer reinsurance program (created in the 1990s) is obsolete after the Affordable Care Act expanded small‑group coverage and that continuing administrative audits imposes unnecessary costs.
Representative Rod Furnas, R‑District 31, asked the House Business Committee on Feb. 11 to repeal an obsolete small‑employer reinsurance statute, saying the program was useful before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded access but is now unnecessary.
Dean Cameron, director of the Idaho Department of Insurance, told the committee the program had filled a role when small employers struggled to…
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