Smith Presses for Obamacare Mandate Relief for CoOportunity Health Customers (Video)

Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) participated today in a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on the individual and employer mandates in President Obama’s health care law. In the hearing, Smith pressed Sabrina Corlette, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, on whether CoOportunity Health customers should receive a waiver from Obamacare’s individual mandate penalties following the loss of their health care plans due to CoOportunity Health’s liquidation.

Click here for video of Congressman Smith’s exchange with Sabrina Corlette, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

In February 2015, Smith introduced H.R. 954 which would exempt consumers who purchased coverage under a terminated qualified health plan funded through the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO–OP) program, such as CoOportunity Health, from paying Obamacare’s individual mandate penalties.

For more information on H.R. 954, click here.