New York state is taking steps to ensure that health insurersmaintain coverage for certain benefits currently provided underfederal law and continue participating in the health insuranceexchanges.

This occurs as the Trump administration and the GOP-led Congresscontinue efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

"For the public health and general welfare, the department ispromulgating this rule on an emergency basis in the event thatCongress repeals the ACA," the Department of Financial Serviceswrote in the rule, posted to the State Register last week andsubject to a 45-day public comment period.

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Josefa Velasquez

Josefa Velasquez is a regulatory and Court of Appeals reporter for the New York Law Journal based in Albany, N.Y. Contact Josefa Velasquez at [email protected]. Twitter: @j__velasquez