Date: October 30, 2019

Subject: Increasing Health Care Costs by Preventing States from Reforming Obamacare

Description: Warner (D-VA) resolution, which would invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Trump administration's efforts to allow insurers to offer less expensive, short-term health plans. The Trump administration provided states flexibility to bypass Obamacare mandates by permitting states to submit "state relief and empowerment waivers" to the federal Department of Health and Human Services under section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act. This resolution would invoke the CRA to undo the Trump administration's reforms and largely prohibit insurers from offering short-term health insurance plans or other policies exempt from the ACA's costly "essential health benefit" mandates. ACU has long opposed Obamacare and its heavy-handed mandates which have led to skyrocketing health care costs and supports the Trump administration's use of waivers to provide consumers with more affordable health care by permitting them to select the health plans that best suit their needs.

Result: Joint Resolution Defeated, 43-52

Democrat: 41 Yeas, 0 Nays, 4 Not voting
Republican: 1 Yeas, 52 Nays, 0 Not voting
Independent: 1 Yeas, 0 Nays, 1 Not voting

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