House Republican leaders hope to pry Democratic senators away from the team defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by sending over three personal health account bills that have won the votes of a significant number of Democrats in the House.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has posted budget impact reviews of the health account bills on its website. 

The House Rules Committee has posted a section-by-section summary of a package that includes the health account bills and a better-known bill, H.R. 436.  H.R. 436 would repeal a PPACA provision that would impose a 2.3% excise tax on medical devices other than eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids and some other devices sold in retail stores.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.