The immediate healthcare policy goal for Republicans should be dispelling uncertainty around the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, according to three former secretaries of HHS.
The Associated Press spoke to former Republican HHS chiefs Tommy Thompson and Mike Leavitt and Democrat Kathleen Sebelius. They may disagree on the more long-term direction of the ACA—as evidenced by Leavitt’s interview with HealthExec at HIMSS 2017—but in the short-term, they agree stabilization is needed.
“Stabilizing the current situation can only—I think—be to their benefit,” Sebelius said, of the Trump administration. “In an environment in which (insurance) companies are enrolling customers, they've got a lot of time to actually go back to the drawing board and figure this out. The worst of all worlds for them would be to have the current situation unravel because of decisions by this administration.”
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