The Atlantic quoted Manatt’s Jocelyn Guyer, a managing director with Manatt Health, in an article detailing what the AHCA would do if it became law.
One part of the AHCA repeals the tax penalty for Obamacare’s individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office found would increase the ranks of the uninsured more than the changes to subsidies. “The individual mandate has a surprisingly large impact,” said Guyer. A law that made coverage more expensive for lacking continuous coverage, while also eliminating the yearly mandate, would result in mass defections from the market among healthy people while actually compelling some of the sickest people—facing rate hikes on top of continuous coverage penalties—to sign up when they could, the publication reports.
Read the article here.