12/13/16
by News Department on 12/13/16Obama Care and PA residents...
About 1 million people in Pennsylvania are receiving government-subsidized health insurance under Democrats’ 2010 health care law that is facing an uncertain future as Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month with a pledge to repeal it.
Leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress that Trump will share power with also say they are also intent on abolishing President Barack Obama’s signature law.
Republican lawmakers say, no changes are expected next year for people covered through the law’s insurance marketplace and its expansion of Medicaid’s income eligibility guidelines.
Congress could take months to act, and any replacement is expected to need several years to take full effect. Republicans say they hope no one will lose coverage as a result of any forthcoming legislation. But, they say, big changes are needed to stop the cost of health care from raising so quickly, something they say Obama’s law failed to do.
According to aides of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who supports Obama’s law, the Gov. is watching the situation, but has had no formal conversations with state lawmakers.
