Despite repeated Republican failures to pass arepeal-and-replace version of the Affordable Care Act — or just arepeal — there are some provisions from the House and Senate billsthat just won’t die.
Among them are proposed regulations surrounding health savings accounts, which might resurfaceas independent legislation, according to Chatrane Birbal, senioradvisor for government relations at the Society for Human ResourceManagement. In a report from SHRM, Birbal says that “HSAstand-alone legislation will likely be introduced with additionalmodifications to the ACA.”
Both the House and Senate efforts at repeal-and-replace soughtto boost the use of HSAs, but now that the Senate has failed togarner enough votes to proceed, legislators are turning theirattention to bringing back HSA-related provisions in separatelegislation that would raise contribution levels for HSA accountsand loosen restrictions on their use.
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