Last-Minute Change To GOP Bill Keeps Medicare Tax On Wealthy For 6 Years

Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) tells Inside Health Policy that the GOP will amend the GOP health care bill to keep the extra Medicare tax on wealthier enrollees for six years . Republican Study Committee Chair Mark Walker (R-NC) told IHP that temporarily keeping the extra Medicare tax was floated as a way to get moderate Republicans to sign on to the American Health Care Act. The bill initially repealed the extra 0.9 percent tax on those making...