Governors to Take Active Role in Obamacare's Repeal, Replacement
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/state-governor-obamacare-repeal/2016/11/26/id/760756/
State leaders are reportedly planning to be "very, very active" in any gutting of Obamacare.
The National Governors Association in particular is eyeing a more public and aggressive role as GOP leaders try to replace the federal program, The Hill reported.
"Governors will be very, very active and engaged," NGA's health policy director Frederick Isasi told The Hill. "They really are one of the few groups who are, in this very tangible day-to-day way, are living the results of the policies."
The stakes are high; an abrupt repeal of the Affordable Care Act covering 22 million people could have "devastating consequences," Iowa's GOP insurance commissioner Nich Gerhart recently warned.
"The idea of folks having credible coverage today that is no longer there come June or July or some mid-point of the year, it really is going to be disruptive, not only to the insurance market, but also to those peoples' individual lives," Gerhart wrote in an online op-ed piece...........(SNIP)