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Republicans Pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Ahead of the July 4 Deadline

On June 16, 2025, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo released text and a section-by-section summary of the Senate’s proposed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Senate passed a revised version of this measure on July 1,...more

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The one, big, beautiful benefits legal alert

On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” containing its draft tax legislation (the OBBB), which includes a number of items that may be of particular interest to US employers...more

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Priorities of the 118th Congress and the Biden Administration

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As the final votes of the 2022 Midterm Elections are counted, Republicans have taken back control of the House of Representatives, while the Democrats will retain control of the Senate. Both chambers will be held by extremely...more

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Group Health Plans: What Employers Need to Know About Year-End Federal Legislation

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The year-end federal spending bill, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (“FCAA”), was signed into law on December 20, 2019. Although the media spotlight has focused primarily on provisions affecting retirement...more

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Update to Texas v. United States: Fifth Circuit Strikes Individual Mandate, Remands on Severability

On December 18th, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals released a long-awaited decision on a significant challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), affirming a lower-court ruling that we discussed in a previous post....more

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Fifth Circuit Issues ACA Ruling, But Severability Question Remains

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A decision in Texas v. United States was issued by a divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 18, 2019. This case presented once again the question whether the Affordable Care Act...more

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SECURE Act In; Cadillac Tax Out: The Spending Act Makes Serious Changes to Benefits Rules

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Below is a summary of those key provisions. I. SECURE Act The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act, H.R. 1994) is arguably the most significant and comprehensive retirement saving...more

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JUST IN: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reaches Decision on Latest Case Involving Constitutionality of ACA

December 18, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reached its widely anticipated decision in Texas vs. Azar, ruling that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is unconstitutional as a...more

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Update to Texas v. United States: DOJ Files a Brief in Support of Eliminating the ACA

On May 1, 2019, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed an initial brief (the “Brief”) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) on behalf of the United States, in favor of upholding the lower...more

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New Federal Court Ruling Creates Further Uncertainty for the Affordable Care Act

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On December 14, Texas U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor issued a broad federal court ruling in Texas v. Azar to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the basis that the individual mandate penalty, which Congress...more

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Texas v. United States: Texas Federal Court “Strikes Down” the ACA

On Friday, December 14, 2018, a federal district court judge in Texas issued a widely anticipated opinion that struck down the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) as unconstitutional. The judge ruled in...more

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[Podcast]: Texas Judge Declares Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional

In this episode of the Proskauer Benefits Brief, partner Robert Projansky and associate Katrina McCann discuss the recent district court case, Texas et al. v. The United States of America, which declared the Affordable Care...more

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Is the Affordable Care Act a House of Cards? If Yes, What Does the Recent Texas Court Decision Mean for the US Health Insurance...

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In an unexpectedly broad ruling issued December 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas declared the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) as unconstitutional in its entirety. This decision, if ultimately...more

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Federal District Court Invalidates Entire Affordable Care Act

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On Friday, December 14, 2018, a federal district court in Texas invalidated the entire Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). The decision in the case, Texas v. United States, was issued on the day before the end of the 2019 open...more

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“A Slow Game Of Jenga:” Has A Federal Judge Toppled The Affordable Care Act?

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Last Friday, in Texas v. United States, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas (1) declared the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate to be unconstitutional. In so doing, the Judge, a President George...more

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What's New In Washington - July 2018

Lawmakers returned from their Independence Day recess prepared for more legislative fireworks over a slew of outstanding agenda items, including a showdown over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace...more

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Ohio seeks to become the first state to receive a 1332 waiver of the individual mandate

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On March 30, 2018, the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) submitted the application for a waiver from the requirements of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. If approved, Ohio would become the first state to receive...more

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The Trump Scorecard – One Year Later

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In our inaugural Wealth Management newsletter in February, 2017, we analyzed the President’s campaign platform and made predictions about the President’s legislative agenda. We checked our predictions in May and again in...more

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2017 Tax Reform and Its Effects on Healthcare

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Over the past decade, the Healthcare Industry has been accustom to being center stage in political debates, but while medical providers and facilities did not have a prominent role in the latest political drama, the far...more

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