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 GOP’s 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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