Congressional Republicans Release Alternate Plan to Restore Insurer ACA Payments
In related news this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announced agreement on an alternate conservative plan to restore the ACA CSR’s. The Hatch-Brady deal would fund the ACA CSR’s for two years, delay enforcement of the individual insurance mandate to 2021 and the employer mandate until 2018 and raise the maximum contribution for health savings accounts.
Full details of the plan, including CBO estimates on the impact on the uninsured and health care costs, have not yet been released. Although the Hatch-Brady bill has more appeal to Republicans, particularly in the House, than the Alexander-Murray bill, delaying the individual insurance mandate is a poison pill that most Democrats will not support, which would minimize its chances of passage as a stand-alone bill.
Full details of the plan, including CBO estimates on the impact on the uninsured and health care costs, have not yet been released. Although the Hatch-Brady bill has more appeal to Republicans, particularly in the House, than the Alexander-Murray bill, delaying the individual insurance mandate is a poison pill that most Democrats will not support, which would minimize its chances of passage as a stand-alone bill.
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