Modern Healthcare September 30, 2017
In a show of unprecedented unity, healthcare providers and payers banded together to defeat Senate Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
They breathed a collective sigh of relief after Senate leaders decided Sept. 25 not to vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill, which would have converted the ACA’s funding for premium and cost-sharing reduction subsidies and Medicaid expansion into $1.2 trillion in state block grants through 2026 and let states design their own systems, with few limitations.
But payers’ and providers’ work isn’t over. Now that the repeal attempt has stalled, hospitals and health insurers hope to build on that success by bringing back bipartisan efforts to stabilize the troubled individual insurance market and turning lawmakers’ focus to...