By Gina Shaw
As Congress moves headlong toward repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one thing is certain: Repealing the law without a comparable replacement for the more than 20 million people who stand to lose health insurance would have a huge cost and quality care effect on hospitals and their patients.
“We would go back to where we were before the ACA was in place,” and for many hospitals, that was definitely not a safe place to be, said Steven J. Martin, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP,