DREDF Urges the Biden Administration to Rescind Georgia’s Section 1332 Waiver

January 12, 2022
On January 7, 2022, DREDF provided comment on Georgia’s approved Section 1332 Waiver, which permits the State to exit HealthCare.gov—a central source of enrollment and enrollment assistance for the roughly 500,000 Georgians who enroll in private health plans or Medicaid through the platform. DREDF has serious concerns that this waiver does not meet the requirements of Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, as it will revert Georgia’s healthcare enrollment into a system that forces consumers to search among a multitude of private, profit-drive web brokers and insurers in order to find coverage. This fragmented system will create new barriers to enrollment, eliminate neutral navigators, and result in increased enrollment in “junk” plans that do not meet an individual’s needs. These harms will be particularly hard felt among Georgians with disabilities. We urge HHS and USDT to immediately rescind the waiver. […], January 12, 2022
On January 7, 2022, DREDF provided comment on Georgia’s approved Section 1332 Waiver, which permits the State to exit HealthCare.gov—a central source of enrollment and enrollment assistance for the roughly 500,000 Georgians who enroll in private health plans or Medicaid through the platform. DREDF has serious concerns that this waiver does not meet the requirements of Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, as it will revert Georgia’s healthcare enrollment into a system that forces consumers to search among a multitude of private, profit-drive web brokers and insurers in order to find coverage. This fragmented system will create new barriers to enrollment, eliminate neutral navigators, and result in increased enrollment in “junk” plans that do not meet an individual’s needs. These harms will be particularly hard felt among Georgians with disabilities. We urge HHS and USDT to immediately rescind the waiver. […],