Senate set to resume tax bill debate with health care components uncertain

The Senate will debate and may vote on the Republican tax reform proposal today, with several critical health care components still undefined, possibly affecting millions of people and billions of dollars.
“The current draft of the Senate bill would repeal the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to obtain health insurance that meets minimum standards,” Pari Mody, associate of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, told Healio Family Medicine in an interview.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said such a repeal would increase the number of uninsured people to 13

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