HealthExec October 25, 2019
Amy Baxter

Several states are working on their own healthcare plans to preserve some coverage and provisions of the Affordable Care Act as the healthcare law makes its way through an appeals court and faces the real possibility of being overturned, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In the absence of a Trump administration healthcare plan to replace the ACA, a huge gap in insurance could be in the future. The ACA is facing its biggest legal challenge to date after a Republican-led lawsuit sought to overturn it and a federal judge declared the entire law unconstitutional last year. While Democrats have appealed the decision, the ACA remains the law of the land.

Some lawmakers in a handful of states, including Louisiana, Nevada,...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, HHS, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange, States
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