Top Medicaid Official Comes Out Against GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 9, 2017, 10:46 AM EDT
A senior Medicaid official broke with his own department Wednesday and came out publicly against the GOPs bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Andrey Ostrovsky, the chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), announced in a Twitter post that he was opposed to the Republican bill pending in the House. CMCS is a division within the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS Secretary Tom Price, a former Republican congressman, is the Trump administration's point person on Obamacare repeal and replace.
"Despite political messaging from others at HHS, I align with the experts from (American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association) in opposition to #AHCA," Andrey Ostrovsky, chief medical officer for The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), wrote on Twitter.
Link to tweet
Ostrovsky, an Obama appointee who assumed his role in September 2016, joins associations representing hospitals, doctors, seniors and insurers who have criticized the bill this week. Like Democrats and moderate conservatives who oppose the legislation, those groups say the proposal provides low-income and aging Americans with much fewer protections than they had under Obamacare.
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Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Do you think there will be payback from Trump?
kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)They are getting rid of all the old timers in the state department who's to say they won't be doing the same in Medicare in the zeal to tear apart the government.
I am now fully cognizant that a year from now our government will be in shambles.
ananda
(28,867 posts)A complete decimation of government and democracy over here...
so he can get what he wants over there.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)But, that takes guts like Sally Yates.