In an Inside Health Policy article on newly unveiled reconciliation text that removed language promoting health savings accounts and individual choice health reimbursement arrangements, CAHC’s reaction was included.
Ways & Means did not respond to a query by press time on the Senate’s exclusion of those tax provisions. But the Council for Affordable Health Coverage (CAHC), which has long pushed for expanding HSAs, says while it is disappointed the policies didn’t make the Senate language, “the legislative process is not over.”
“Now is the time for every advocate to tell the Senate we need HSAs in the reconciliation bill. They help to lower costs, give Americans better access to quality healthcare, and empower patients trapped in high deductible Obamacare plans,” CAHC said.