Healthcare-related legislation

Even though it was expected, the coverage-loss estimate is a sweeping blow to President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans, who are trying to push the legislation through the House and Senate without Democratic support.

From repealing tax penalties to expanding savings vehicles, the AHCA contains several proposals to help with compliance burdens and insurance expenses.

The Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, which clarifies legality of biometric testing in well-being plans, advances in the House.

The introduced AHCA includes the possibility of new state requirements and a postponement of the Cadillac tax.

From repealing tax penalties to expanding savings vehicles, the AHCA contains several proposals to help with compliance burdens and insurance expenses.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

There’s more work to do, but the American Health Care Act helps advisers to do their jobs by removing regulatory burdens on employer-sponsored benefits.

The introduced AHCA includes the possibility of new state requirements and a postponement of the Cadillac tax.

Agent commissions still included as part of calculation in GOP health plan, but NAIFA, NAHU, other broker groups working to engineer a solution.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

The proposed bill cuts taxes for wealthy people, ends Medicaid as we know it to help pay for those tax cuts, reduces the number of Americans who can afford health insurance, and angers such a wide variety of voting constituencies that it is effectively dead on arrival, writes Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist Max Nisen.

Benefit executives should have more money to invest in their health insurance offerings as Congress pushes back the Cadillac tax and cuts other ACA taxes.

The GOP proposal to replace the ACA eliminates the individual mandate and expands the role of HSAs.

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

Though a repeal of the provision is still uncertain, there are steps benefits pros can take to put minds at ease.

The push for value-based care is requiring pharmacy benefit managers to provide explicit cost data.

Though a repeal of the provision is still uncertain, there are steps benefits pros can take to put minds at ease.

Promises to repeal Obamacare are proving to be more complicated then they sounded on the campaign trail. With those realities setting in, Peter Orszag, President Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, explores what happens next.

History offers a wealth of reasons for healthcare reformers to tread cautiously, says University of Georgia Professor Stephen Mihm.