Let Obamacare implode. That was President Trump’s tweet after the Senate failed at a slimmed down repeal.
But to the CEO of River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, that’s not the answer as more and more insurance companies pull out of Obamacare exchanges.
“Most of the patients who are on those programs aren’t going to have coverage and that’s going to really spike our bad debt situation which could be a real problem for us,” said Ben Moore.
He says any progress now depends on the two parties in Washington finally starting to work together.
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“I would hope that they would all get together and leave the politics out of it and just decide they’re going to fix what’s there right now, let it stabilize, come back and make their changes,” said Moore.
That sounds, in part, like the approach of north country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. She co-chairs a group of moderate Republicans, the Tuesday Group, which met recently with a group of moderate Democrats.
Her spokesman says one of the issues raised “was beginning bipartisan conversations on healthcare.”
Moore says not only must something be done, but it needs to happen soon.
“I think the timing is not good. I think if we go through the fall with the uncertainty continuing, I think it just gets worse and worse,” he said.
Especially, he says, for patients.
Date:Aug 01, 2017