Health Care & Hospital Law
May 30, 2017
Reconciliation and health care reform
Is the Senate's "Byrd Rule" a legal barrier to complete replacement of the Affordable Care Act?
Eric J. Schillinger
Associate
Trucker Huss
Labor & Employment, Taxation
1 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco , CA 94111-3617
Phone: (415) 788-3111
Fax: (415) 421-2017
UC Davis King Hall
Republican-led efforts to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) cleared their first legislative hurdle on May 4, when the House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The AHCA focuses primarily on repealing, replacing or revising most of the ACA's taxes and expenditures such as the employer mandate, Cadillac tax and Medicaid expansion. But in stark contrast to most Republican-endorsed proposals, the AHCA largely leaves inta...
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