New rule allows small businesses, self-employed to seek insurance coverage exempt from some Affordable Care Act mandates Small businesses would have greater flexibility to join together through association health plans to avoid some Affordable Care Act coverage requirements under a final rule issued by the Trump administration June 19. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year directing the Department of Labor to find ways to expand the use of association health plans as a means of circumventing some ACA mandates. The order came after Republicans in Congress failed to repeal the Obama-era health care law, dealing a major policy defeat to the… Read More