Arkansas Online
By: Andy Davis
Arkansas would lose $6 billion in federal health care funding over seven years under legislation aimed at undoing much of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to estimates by a health care consulting firm.
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Marquita Little, health care policy director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said she’s also concerned about a provision in the proposed legislation allowing states to receive waivers from consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act. For instance, states could receive approval to allow insurers to charge people higher premiums based on their health conditions, a practice banned under the 2010 law. “It’s really a slippery slope to open that door to all of this flexibility,” Little said.
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