Monday News: Counting the costs of voter negligence

WHAT WILL OBAMACARE REPEAL MEAN FOR WNC HOSPITALS? (Asheville Citizen-Times) -- With Congress and the president pledging to repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaders of Western North Carolina hospitals are closely following the discussions to find out what might replace the existing health care law. The stakes are high. By one estimate, repealing the legislation without an effective replacement plan and keeping in place payment reductions to hospitals that came with the law would cost North Carolina hospitals $7.1 billion over eight years. That scenario would be especially hard on rural hospitals with a high percentage of uninsured patients, according to health care experts.
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