re: 18 States Sue to Challenge Loss of Subsidies

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Didn't the president just sign a law that allowed individual payers to create their own market? So couldn't they just abandon the subsidized market and force insurers to close up shop.

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He didn't sign a law, he signed an executive order to direct departments to look at ways to expand association plans.

Technically, nothing on that front has actually changed yet.

The argument on their end is that by forcing states to allow association plans from other states to operate in their borders without that home state regulating them, it will lead to increased competition and bring down costs. I have heavy skepticism about this argument. For one, several states already allow outside insurers to operate under outside laws in their border and so far have had zero insurers try and do so. That is because building a network is not easy. Hospitals and such have little incentive to give good rates to new insurers over established customer bases. Which can harm their competitiveness in their own established markets.