The House is expected to vote on the American Health Care Act of 2017 as amended today around 12:30-1:00 pm. As you will recall, the House Rules committee approved an amendment in April to increase funds for health insurance market stabilization by $15B. Since then there have been two other amendments proposed - one from Rep. Tom MacArthur to permit states to waive certain requirements of the ACA like the age rating and Essential Health Benefits and one from Rep. Fred Upton to provide more money for states opting for waiver to make sure high cost (read: people with pre-existing conditions) patients have coverage.
There have not been any votes on these last two amendments but we expect House Rules to approve this morning. We have had several requests for an updated version of the summary table so it is available here:
Please call with questions, comments, ideas. It should be a pretty exciting Thursday
Emily Evans
Managing Director
Health Policy
@HedgeyeEEVANS
