6/15/11 - AmeriHealth Shares Health Care Reform Update: Appeals Compliance and Free-Choice Voucher. On April 15, the U.S. Senate repealed the free-choice voucher provision of the Affordable
Care Act. Under the provision, employers would have been required to offer vouchers beginning in 2014 to certain employees whose cost of coverage exceeded a percentage of their household income. The voucher would have been used to purchase coverage on a state health insurance exchange.