Insurance Fee Repeal Gives States Opening To Legislate Replacement

State legislators looking to fund initiatives to improve their health care markets have a new opening now that Congress has repealed the federal tax on health insurance plans effective 2021, says Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, managing director of Manatt Health. Brooks-LaSure suggests state lawmakers use their 2020 sessions to enact state-level health insurance fees to secure funding for priorities that could pick up where the federal fee left off, but she says they would need to move quickly before the 2021 premiums...