The much discussed and anticipated Republican response to former President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), known colloquially as Obamacare, is a “repeal and replace” bill that was publically released on 6 March.
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) drawn up by President Trump’s administration aims to replace the ACA as the legislature governing US healthcare, and has been met with skepticism from both major political parties. Although many people in the US have doubts about the bill’s ability to provide affordable healthcare access, medical device companies received a major win in the AHCA’s permanent repeal of the medical device excise tax.
