Handful Of House Health Panelists Support Strong ACA And Device Tax Repeal

Democrats sitting on the health subpanels of Congress’ Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees already have pledged publicly in the current Congress to stabilize and enhance most provisions of the ACA, in part to offset what they say are attempts by Republicans to dismantle it. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., is a prime example; he promised to “stop the Republican sabotage of the ACA,” in 2019, at a Feb. 27 public briefing in Washington, DC, on the topic of Congress and health-care actions in the coming year. (Also see "US House Preview: Health Panels To Push Device Tax Repeal, Shutdown Contingency Bills In 2019" - Medtech Insight, 5 March, 2019.)

Simultaneously, some Democrats (57 out of 193 Dems in the entire House) and almost every GOP House member wanted to make a slight fix tothe ACA in the last session...