The leaders of the nation's largest nonprofit health system say the GOP's health care plan \"moves us in the wrong direction,\" according to an editorial in ModernHealthcare, a trade publication. <\/p>\n
Tony Tersigni and Bob Henkel, executives with Edmundson-based Ascension, provide pointed criticism of the American Health Care Act that they say fails to ensure coverage for the nation's most vulnerable. <\/p>\n
\"Almost $900 billion of the net savings come from Medicaid the program designed to provide a safety net for the poor and vulnerable. That is simply untenable,\" the two executives write. <\/p>\n
In the commentary signed by both Tersigni and Henkel, the two provide a few points by which they analyze all proposed health care legislation. <\/p>\n
No bill should reduce access or coverage, they said. In fact, it should be expanded. <\/p>\n
And any proposal should strengthen the individual market. <\/p>\n
Read the editorial in its entirety here. <\/p>\n
Ascension Healthcare operates more than 141 hospitals and 2,500 facilities in 24 states and Washington, D.C. Its a subsidiary of Ascension, the nations largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health care system. <\/p>\n
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