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Healthcare was the hot topic in the 2018 midterm election as exit polls showed that approximately 40% of voters ranked it as the most important issue. On this issue, Democrats held the advantage which allowed them to gain control of the House of Representatives by a margin of 234 to 200 (one seat still undecided). […]
Individual Mandate The 2018 tax reform law eliminated the penalty for failing to comply with the ACA’s individual mandate beginning in 2019. As a result, twenty Republican states filed a lawsuit in Texas arguing that the individual mandate is fundamental to the ACA. They believe that, without the mandate, the ACA is no longer workable […]
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires that financial requirements and quantitative treatment limitations imposed on mental health and substance use disorder benefits cannot be more restrictive than the requirements that apply to medical/surgical benefits in the same classification.
