Government Wants Association Health Plan Ruling Reversed

Mealey's (June 3, 2019, 2:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — States lack standing to challenge a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) rule expanding association health plans, and in any case, a judge erred in finding the rule did “violence” to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) definition of an employer, the Department of Labor tells the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an opening brief May 31 (New York, et al. v. U.S. Department of Labor, et al., No. 19-5125, D.C. Cir.)....