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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has joined counterparts in 20 other states in an attempt to persuade a federal judge to block new federal rules that would cause an estimated 1.8 million people lose their coverage.
Read the full suit here.
The suit also seeks to block new rules that would discourage health insurers from covering gender-affirming care.
According to a statement issued by Rayfield, the new rule issued “with less than four months until open enrollment for plan year 2026 begins ... would [erect] a series of new barriers to enrollment that will deprive up to 1.8 million people of insurance coverage by the administration’s own estimates, and significantly drive up the costs incurred by Plaintiff States in providing healthcare, including increasing state expenditures on Medicaid, uncompensated emergency care, and funding other services provided to newly uninsured residents.”
The statement adds that the new rule “means more people in Oregon could end up uninsured, which can lead to worse health outcomes. When people don’t have insurance, they’re less likely to get routine care or manage chronic conditions, which can snowball into more serious health issues. On top of that, Oregon hospitals will be left to absorb the cost of providing emergency care to those who can’t pay—care they’re legally required to provide.”
