House Republicans say compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will now take roughly 190 million hours per year — or enough time to build the Empire State Building 27 times.
The GOP reached that total by adding together the compliance burden in each regulation implementing part of the healthcare law.
The new estimate is up from Republicans' February compliance burden figures, which tallied 127 million hours. Those figures came from the The Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees' "Obamacare Burden Tracker."
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The GOP reached that total by adding together the compliance burden in each regulation implementing part of the healthcare law.
The new estimate is up from Republicans' February compliance burden figures, which tallied 127 million hours. Those figures came from the The Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees' "Obamacare Burden Tracker."
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