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Paving the Way for More HRAs

President Trump signed an executive order last year directing the Secretaries of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services to consider proposing regulations to “increase the usability of HRAs.” This month, the collective departments issued proposed regulations containing changes to the prohibition on pairing HRAs with individual health policies, as well as other changes to the current HRA rules.

Proposed effective date January 1, 2020; comments due December 28, 2018.

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Feds’ Argument in Favor of Premium Tax Credit Gains Momentum, Still Under Attack in Federal Courts

A second federal district court judge has ruled in favor of the government on one of the most serious challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The court dismissed a challenge to the availability of premium tax credits under the ACA. The plaintiffs now have appeals pending in two federal circuits, and similar challenges remain pending in two other federal trial courts.

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