Congressional Aide: Ryan's King Fix Wouldn't Limit Employer Tax Exclusion

By Amy Lotven / March 3, 2015 at 8:44 PM
A Republican House aide tells Inside Health Policy that House Republicans' fix to a potential Supreme Court ruling to end premium subsidies for those insured by the federal exchange would not cap employer-sponsored subsidies to offset the costs of the GOP plan to offer advance-able, refundable tax credits, but instead would pay for the credits with “savings from the eliminated subsidies.” A February bicameral GOP proposal had suggested capping the employer tax exclusion as an offset. Health care experts...


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