Obamacare Taxes Aren't Necessarily Going Away: GOP Senators

  • House version of health bill would repeal taxes that fund ACA
  • Hatch says too hard to predict outcome for health-care taxes

The Fate of the GOP Health Bill in the Senate

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Republican senators said it’s unclear whether their chamber will repeal all of the taxes imposed under Obamacare as they set aside the health-care bill passed by the House and prepare to write their own from scratch.

“That’s hard to say right now. We just have to see,” said Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican whose panel oversees health-care and tax policy. “It’s going to be negotiated.”