Amicus States Say Pandemic Requires Opening ACA Health Exchanges

Mealey's (June 26, 2020, 12:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The novel coronavirus poses the type of “exceptional circumstance” requiring that Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care insurance exchanges be opened for a special enrollment period, California and 13 other states tell a federal judge in the District of Columbia in a June 22 amicus curiae brief (Chicago v. Alex M. Azar II, et al., No. 20-1566, D. D.C.)....