House Considers Amended ACA Repeal-and-Replace Bill

House Considers Amended ACA Repeal-and-Replace Bill

May 3, 2017, Covington Alert

Last week, Representative Thomas MacArthur (R-N.J.) proposed an amendment (the “MacArthur Amendment”) to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in an effort to resuscitate the Republican bill that Speaker Paul Ryan pulled from the House floor last month. The MacArthur Amendment makes several changes to the AHCA, which we summarized in Advisories 17-9 and 17-10.