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Health Care Sharing Ministry Seeks Relief Regarding Cease-and-Desist Order by Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner
December 16, 2020
In the Western District of Washington on Tuesday, OneShare International, OneShare Health LLC, and the Rev. Pamela Woodson filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against agents of the Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner (OIC) Myron “Mike” Kreidler, Steve Valandra, Toni Hood, and Todd Dixon, who filed a cease-desist-order to bar the plaintiffs from operating their health care sharing ministry (HCSM) in Washington state.
The OIC ordered OneShare Health, an HCSM with origins in Anabaptism, to cease and desist on the grounds that the plaintiffs’ HCSM did not qualify for an exemption from insurance regulation under the state’s “HSCM safe harbor,” which was enacted by Congress concurrently with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to make HCSMs exempt from the same federal regulations as traditional health care provider