BenefitsPro covered the Senate HELP hearing on health care affordability and the ACA subsidies debate, including CAHC president Joel White’s testimony.
The witness list at the hearing included Joel White, president of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, and Marcie Strouse, an Iowa benefits advisor who is president of the Iowa chapter of the National Association of Business and Insurance Professionals but who identified herself as speaking on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business.
Both Strouse and White emphasized the need to help small employers afford health coverage by eliminating many of the current coverage requirements and increasing access to other options.
White, for example, called for making it easier for employers and others to team up to buy health coverage through association health plans, easing restrictions on access to short-term health insurance and passing the “CHOICE Act” bill, which would expand the individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement program.