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As both houses of Congress and the White House await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), efforts on the part of the Republican House to amend various portions of the Act continue.  Although Congress is under a party split, some efforts to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act have enjoyed bipartisan support. However, these efforts have proved unsuccessful.  This blog examines some of the ongoing efforts to chip away various provisions of PPACA. 

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In the waning days of the March 2010 debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the authors of the Act were forced to abandon a “single payor” clause (also called the “public option”) in order to assemble enough votes to pass the legislation.   Some of the more ardent supporters of the public option threatened to withhold their support for PPACA due to the exclusion of the public option from the bill.  In a compromise with the public option supporters, the authors of PPACA added...