Benefits Buzz - September 2017

Senate Rejects ACA Repeal Efforts In the early morning hours of July 28, 2017, members of the U.S. Senate voted 49-51 to reject a “skinny” version of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), called the Health Care Freedom Act (HCFA). This was the final vote of the Senate’s 20-hour debate period, and effectively ended the Republicans’ current efforts
to repeal and replace the ACA. However, the skinny repeal bill may be reintroduced at some point in the future. What did the HCFA propose? Similar to the American Health Care Act
and the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the HCFA would repeal the ACA’s individual and employer mandate penalties, effective Dec. 31, 2015. However, the employer mandate repeal would only be effective through 2024.

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