Martha McSally introduces legislation to stabilize federal healthcare market
The bipartisan
A key proposal to the legislation requires the federal government pay out cost-sharing subsidies -- an estimated
Other provisions in the legislation include raising the employer mandate from 50 employees to 500 and repealing the medical device tax.
"It doesn't take a doctor to diagnose that the individual market across the country is not healthy and urgent action is needed to help our constituents," McSally said Monday morning.
The two-term
McSally said the efforts of the caucus wasn't trying to undermine what the
She said the healthcare marketplace is not working under the current law.
"2018 is coming fast, and we saw this as a strong step to break the fever," McSally said.
While some of the fixes were inside the the skinny repeal that failed in the
"We had to swallow some requests from the other side," she acknowledged.
The retired
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