Boustany To Reintroduce Tweaked Small Business Healthcare Act

Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), chairman of House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee, aims to introduce a tweaked version of his bill amending the Internal Revenue Code to treat employer payments for employee health care premiums and amounts paid to health reimbursement arrangements for their employees as medical expenses under accident or health plans, excluding them from gross income for tax purposes. Boustany's senior health adviser, Melissa Gierach, said she is reviewing the bill introduced in December to potentially tweak details...