Beneath the din of the dueling Obamacare and Trumpcare plans, another health care act quietly passed Congress this past December, and new data shows it’s one of the few things Democrats and Republicans can agree on right now.

In particular, left and right have united around one of the act’s provisions — the Small Business Healthcare Relief Act, which enables small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees to offer stand-alone health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to their staff.

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