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Rep. Andy Biggs is continuing the fight to kill the Affordable Care Act package. The Arizona Republican has introduced a bill that would repeal both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the other bill that makes up the ACA, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
The new bill is one of 225 bills that were filed Friday, as the 119th Congress came to life.
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Biggs previously introduced a similar bill in the 118th Congress. If the bill became law, and the ACA went away, employers and their benefits advisors could see a return of medical underwriting in the fully insured small-group market.
The health benefits community could also see elimination of the federal rule that bans annual or lifetime limits on coverage for essential health benefits and the federal rule that requires plans to keep children on their parents' coverage up until age 26.
Like the earlier bill, the new bill faces review by eight committees: the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Education and the Workforce Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, the House Administration Committee, the House Appropriations Committee and the House Rules Committee.
The full text of the new bill is not yet available. The earlier version simply repealed PPACA and HCERA and restored the laws in place before those laws were enacted, in 2010. The earlier bill did not provide a replacement for the ACA, other than what was in federal law before 2010.
The Biggs ACA repeal has appeared at a time when support for the ACA appears to be strong. About 54% of U.S. adults now say they approve of the ACA, according to Gallup.
Related: Poll: Majority back government health care, ACA approval soars
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he believes that "Obamacare," the commercial health insurance program created by the ACA, is a bad program, but that he would try to run the current system as well as possible until another, better arrangement is available.
Trump has not talked about the ACA components that are not related to the commercial health insurance provisions.
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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.
