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The New Tax Bill’s Implications for Healthcare

  |  Issue: February 2018  |  

All other provisions of the ACA, such as the prohibition on discriminating against people with preexisting conditions, remain intact for now.

Steven M. Harris, Esq.Steven M. Harris, Esq., is a nationally recognized health-care attorney and a member of the law firm McDonald Hopkins LLC. Contact him via email at ​[email protected].

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