Sunday, December 21, 2025

HealthLeaders: In Op-Ed, Verma Again Calls on States to Bypass ACA

“In an op-ed published this week in The Washington Times, the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services again called upon states to sidestep the Affordable Care Act by taking advantage of new flexibility from the Trump administration.”

“CMS Administrator Seema Verma touted the four “waiver concepts” she unveiled last November to give states a rough outline of how they might bypass the Obama-era law, arguing that Congress should change the ACA because it hasn’t lived up to its proponents’ promises…” Read the full article here.

Source: In Op-Ed, Verma Again Calls on States to Bypass ACA – By Steven Porter, January 17, 2019. HealthLeaders.

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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