The so-called “Skinny Bill” debated by the Senate as a means of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act would make “enormous” changes to both private and public insurance, GW Health Policy and Management Professor Sara Rosenbaum said in a story published on July 27 in the Washington Post. The many other sources quoted in the story, which was picked up by other media outlets around the country, included America’s Health Insurance Plans, a major insurance trade association, which weighed in with a letter saying it opposed “targeted proposals that would eliminate key elements of current law without new stabilizing solutions.”
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