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It’s Complicated: Health Care Act Simplifies Buying OTCs With Pre-Tax Accounts

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

CHPA gives tempered support for White House-backed legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act because it would eliminate requirement that consumers can only use pre-tax savings accounts for OTCs if they have a prescription.

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Legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act would deliver on the OTC drug industry’s request to restore provisions allowing direct purchases of OTCs with pre-tax savings accounts, though it’s not the industry’s preferred path for making the change.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association offered a tempered statement of support for House legislation backed by the Republican leadership and President Trump to repeal and replace the ACA because it would eliminate the act’s requirement that consumers have prescriptions for OTC

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