Repeal the Affordable Care Act's taxes, fees, and individual and employer health insurance mandates.

This bill repeals the twelve direct taxes included in ObamaCare... The TRUTH Act repeals the following: Repeal of excise tax on comprehensive health plans... Repeal of individual health insurance mandate. Repeal of employer health insurance mandate.

Schweikert introduced legislation to eliminate the ACA's listed taxes and health insurance mandates.

REP. SCHWEIKERT INTRODUCES BILL TO REPEAL OBAMACARE’S ‘DIRTY DOZEN’ – Congressman Schweikert
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GovInfo shows Schweikert introduced H.R. 6088, titled the Total Repeal of the Unfair Taxes on Healthcare Act of 2012, with the stated purpose 'To repeal certain tax increases enacted as part of health care reform.' The bill was referred to committee and did not become law.

Concrete legislative effort to repeal ACA taxes, but no enactment.

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H.R. 6088 - Total Repeal of the Unfair Taxes on Healthcare Act of 2012
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Public Law 115-97 amended ACA section 5000A by striking the 2.5 percent rate and $695 penalty amount and replacing them with zero, effective for months beginning after December 31, 2018.

The individual mandate penalty was effectively repealed, but only as to the penalty amount, not the entire ACA package Schweikert had targeted.

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Public Law 115-97
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IRS says the TCJA reduced the individual shared responsibility payment to zero for tax year 2019 and later, but taxpayers are still required by law to have minimum essential coverage or qualify for an exemption.

As of the current IRS guidance, the individual mandate penalty is zero but the statutory coverage requirement remains.

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Questions and answers on the individual shared responsibility provision
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IRS continues to describe the ACA employer shared responsibility provisions as the 'employer mandate' or 'pay or play' rules, under which applicable large employers must offer coverage or potentially make a payment to the IRS.

The employer mandate remains in force, so the broader repeal promise was not fully delivered.

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Employer shared responsibility provisions
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IRS guidance says the TCJA reduced the individual shared responsibility payment to zero for tax year 2019 and later, but taxpayers are still required by law to have minimum essential coverage or qualify for an exemption.

The individual mandate penalty was eliminated, but the underlying coverage requirement still exists, so the promise was only partly fulfilled.

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Questions and answers on the individual shared responsibility provision
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IRS guidance says applicable large employers must still offer minimum essential coverage to full-time employees or potentially owe an employer shared responsibility payment.

The employer mandate remains in force, so that part of the ACA repeal promise was not delivered.

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Employer shared responsibility provisions
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The IRS current ACA tax-provisions page lists continuing ACA provisions including Additional Medicare Tax, Net Investment Income Tax, the individual shared responsibility provision with payment reduced to zero after 2018, and the employer shared responsibility provision.

Current official IRS guidance shows the promise was not fully delivered: the individual payment is zero, but the individual coverage requirement, employer shared responsibility provision, and several ACA tax provisions remain.

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Affordable Care Act tax provisions
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GovInfo records H.R. 6088 as introduced by Mr. Schweikert to repeal health-care-reform tax increases, including sections titled repeal of the individual and employer health insurance mandates.

Schweikert took concrete legislative action aimed at the specific promise by introducing a bill to repeal ACA taxes and both mandates.

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H.R. 6088 - Total Repeal of the Unfair Taxes on Healthcare Act of 2012
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The House-passed AHCA table of contents included sections for individual mandate, employer mandate, repeal of medical device excise tax, health insurance tax, tanning tax, and net investment income tax.

The 2017 House repeal bill targeted major ACA mandates and taxes, aligning with the promise, but it was only proposed legislation until enacted.

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H.R. 1628 - American Health Care Act of 2017, Engrossed in House
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The House Clerk records H.R. 1628 as passed 217-213 on May 4, 2017, and lists Schweikert, Republican of Arizona, voting Aye.

Schweikert personally voted for the House ACA repeal-and-replace bill, a serious concrete effort toward repealing ACA mandates and taxes.

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Roll Call 256 | Bill Number: H.R. 1628
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The Senate records the amendment to H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017, as rejected, with 49 yeas and 51 nays.

The broader 2017 ACA repeal effort failed in the Senate, so Schweikert's House vote did not produce full repeal of the ACA taxes, fees, and mandates.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 115th Congress - 1st Session, Vote 179
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Public Law 115-97 section 11081 eliminated the individual shared responsibility payment by setting the percentage to zero and the dollar amount to $0 after 2018.

The TCJA delivered part of the promise by zeroing out the ACA individual mandate penalty, but it did not repeal the employer mandate or all ACA taxes and fees.

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Public Law 115-97
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