WABE
By: Michell Eloy
Even though the Affordable Care Act has not been the top priority in these elections, it may come to an end if these 2016 Elections are won by the Republican Party as the Republican Vice President, Mike Pence, promised to repeal it.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, agrees with Custer. She says states that haven’t expanded Medicaid continue to see much higher rates of uninsured people.
Alker says without expansion, some hospitals in non-expansion states like Georgia are facing a financial cliff.
“The Affordable Care Act assumed that all states would do Medicaid expansion,” Alker says. “So now we have states where we will see cuts for uncompensated care for hospitals. Yet they haven’t picked up the Medicaid expansion so they still have uninsured people.”
Georgetown’s Joan Alker says it’s hard to predict what could happen.
“A lot of uncertainty at best, and potentially a lot of chaos as potentially millions of people become uninsured,” Alker says.
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