Congress Back To Business; Non-Discrimination Reg Out; 9.9M Covered

Congress returns from break to an already packed schedule, as lawmakers are set to hold hearings on the Affordable Care Act's impact and figure out a way to avoid a government shutdown. Last week, CMS released a long-awaited regulation on the ACA's non-discrimination provision, which is the first federal civil rights law to ban sex discrimination in health care. Stakeholders praised the news, but many were upset that the proposed rule did not include specific examples of potentially discriminatory benefit...