Former HHS Secretary’s Leavitt Partners: 73% Chance GOP Will Change Individual Mandate

Health policy analysts predict a 73 percent chance that the individual mandate requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be modified, stalled or repealed if Republicans gain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to an analysis by Leavitt Partners, the firm founded by former HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt.

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Likely modifications to the mandate include raising the income threshold of those exempt from the requirement or denying funding to the IRS to hire staff to enforce the provision.

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