Members of the House have approved three Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act fixer bills with nearly unanimous consent.
The bills are H.R. 1814, the Equitable Access to Care and Health Act bill; H.R. 3474, the Hire More Heroes Act bill; and H.R. 3979, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act bill.
H.R. 1814 would create a new religious exemption to the PPACA individual "shared responsibility" coverage mandate. PPACA already exempts taxpayers who belong to religions that oppose use of health insurance from the mandate. This bill would extend that exemption to others who explain their own objections on their tax returns.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
