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.

Employers could be waiting too long to provide accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act.

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.

As clients’ go-to resource, advisers should provide employers with fact-based analysis of what is and is not included in ACA replacement bill, says consultant Wendy Keneipp.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.