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Court backs Trump expansion of cheap health insurance plans

by Associated Press
| July 19, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Trump administration’s expansion of cheaper short-term health insurance plans, derided by critics as “junk insurance,” as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act’s costlier comprehensive insurance.

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