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A recent ruling[i] by Judge Bates in the District Court of Washington D.C. has endangered the operation of regionally-defined association health plans (AHPs) and other expansions of the AHP market through the Department of Labor’s June 2018 regulation update. The leading force behind these regional AHPs are chambers of commerce. At the time of this report’s writing, chambers are the single most common organization sponsoring new regional AHPs and their health plans illuminate important contrasts between reality of this emerging insurance category and some of the criticisms levied against it. Link to read more at https://www.associationhealthplans.com/reports/chamber-of-commerce-ahp/