The healthcare reform law “provides the [HHS] secretary an unlimited tap on the Treasury to fund state exchange grants, the scope of which seems to be limitless,” wrote Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) in a release on the subcommittee’s website.
But the AHA and other organizations expressed concerned about the bill in a letter to the subcommittee. Any effort to deny funding to the exchanges “would undermine the effort to insure more Americans,” the letter stated.
Read the AHA News Now report on insurance exchanges.
Read the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee release on exchanges.
Read more coverage of health insurance exchanges.
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