The Obama administration wrote a new chapter Wednesday in the “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” chronicles, decreeing that plans it once derided as “junk” or “substandard” can remain in effect until October 2017 — long after the next presidential election. The point, administration officials say, is to help those in the market for individual or small-group plans make a smoother transition into Obamacare (Jon Healey, 3/5). …read more
