ACA mandate repeal tucked into tax bill

The Senate's version of a tax reform bill will include a provision to repeal the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, The Hill reports. By repealing the mandate, there would no longer be an incentive or penalty for people to buy insurance on the individual market. Over the next 10 years, it would save the federal government $338 billion (by paying out fewer subsidies) but decrease the number of people with health insurance by 13 m illion as healthy people drop out of the marketplace the…
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