State Revises Insurance Waiver Request And Pushes Timetable Back

The waiver plan still aims to replace the state’s current healthcare.gov website procedure with what officials call a new, consumer-friendly enrollment process.

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Georgia has streamlined its proposal to the feds for a waiver on health insurance rules and has postponed its launch till 2022.

State officials cited “the unanticipated impact of COVID-19 on the state and its residents’’ in the announcement last week about the changes.

The pandemic has required a “prioritization of resources” dedicated to responding to the emergency that would otherwise contribute to finalizing and implementing the waiver for a January 2021 launch, state officials told GHN on Monday.