Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 39
Let insurers sell health plans across state lines
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Get Congress to allow the sale of health insurance across state lines.”
- Promised
- , Campaign health care plan and Republican primary debates
- Re-promised
- 12 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Congress never passed legislation permitting interstate sale of health plans. States continued to regulate insurance under the McCarran-Ferguson Act, and PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020, noting that states still oversee insurance rules.