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rule, to close loopholes that allows the junk insurance plans to exploit americans. under our rule, short-term plans would have to be short term. that means four months or less, not three years. insurance companies would also be required to provide a clear disclaimer up front about what is covered and what is not covered, instead of burying it in the fine print. second, we are cracking down on surprise medical bills which i thought we had made progress on. you ve already heard stories about people who choose the horse and all that is in their insurance network, and make it a surprise bill for thousands of dollars because the hospital signed them and anesthesiologist who was not in their network. without them knowing it. in january 2022, we had a surprise medical billing so hospitals that are in network cannot send you a surprise bill for an out of network doctor that you did not choose for or even know he was consulting. over the past 18 months we protected 1 million americans
of they didn t want to get in the way of their own court case. they didn t want to undermine the argument that the u.s. government, the biden administration, was making to try to pursue student debt forgiveness. and also they were worried about sending conflicting messages to the general public to borrowers. but the end result is that there are a lot of people i think are going to get hit with a surprise bill because they haven t been following this quite as closely as those of us in the media and the administration have been doing. when president biden comes out today, he says, i m not done fighting for this. he s going to pursue these other routes, which he was calling an on-ramp for payments, but essentially trying to pursue what s going to be a rule making process. and officials acknowledged yet this is going to take time. what do people who have to start paying in october take away from that? do they wait to see if something comes to fruition, or do they begin making their payme
and the administration has done relatively little outreach to date to get in touch with those people to say, hey, you know now we told you that your debt was going to be wiped out?ow we told you that your debt was going to bhow we told you that your debt was going to be wiped out? that may not happen. and when i talk with the administration about that, why haven t they been in greater communication with people about the potential risks of such a supreme court outcome, they basically said some combination of they didn t want to get in the way of their own court case. they didn t want to undermine the argument that the u.s. government, the biden administration, was making to try to pursue student debt forgiveness. and also they were worried about sending conflicting messages to the general public to borrowers. but the end result is that there are a lot of people i think are going to get hit with a surprise bill because they haven t been following this quite as closely as those of us in t