House GOP Lawmakers Ask Federal Agencies To Give Cost Estimate for Changing ACA Provision
On Thursday, Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and John Kline (R-Minn.) asked the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to provide a cost estimate for altering an Affordable Care Act regulation to allow labor unions to continue offering members not-for-profit multi-employer health plans known as "Taft-Hartley" health plans. The unions have expressed concern that the ACA does not consider Taft-Hartley health plans as qualified health plans, which would make such plans ineligible for federal tax subsidies.
- "GOP Seeks Cost Estimate for Unions' Changes to Obamacare" (Baker, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 9/5).