As President-elect Trump continues to promise to make repeal of the Affordable Care Act his administration’s first order of business, Democrats on Capitol Hill are vowing to go to the mats to save the law’s consumer protections, and potentially its employer and individual mandates.
The fight over the next few months is setting up to be a nasty one. Republicans stumbled out of the gate in the first week of the 115th Congress, failing to present a unified message as to how to dismantle the ACA.
The so-called “repeal and delay” approach favored by many Republicans would cut the funding mandates of the ACA through the budget process. That would potentially include repeal of the individual and employer mandates, the Cadillac Tax, the tax on higher-earners’ capital gains and the medical device tax.
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Nick Thornton
Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.
