A controversial plan that would have allowed small businesses to proffer cut-rate health insurance has failed.

A controversial plan that would have allowed small businesses to proffer cut-rate health insurance has failed. The Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act would have allowed businesses to band together across state lines and purchase insurance directly from trade associations or business disposes

The Enzi bill--named after author Michael Enzi, a Republican senator from Wyoming--stalled in the U Senate across a provision that would have allowed association health plans to sidestep dozens of state guidelines that mandate coverage for treatment