Insurers' Lobby To Suspend Health Insurance Tax Boosted By Bipartisan House Bill

By Amy Lotven / May 25, 2018 at 6:46 PM
The health insurance lobby, which continues to press Congress to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act's tax on health insurance premium, praised a bipartisan group of House lawmakers for introducing legislation that would pause the tax through 2020. The ACA excise tax that affects most commercial plans, including Medicaid managed care and Medicare Advantage products, was delayed in 2017, went in effect for 2018, and delayed again for 2019 as part of the GOP tax bill. The bipartisan bill would...


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