Here are four things to know.
1. Former President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law nearly seven years ago. Since that time, investors have put billions of dollars into digital health startups that came about because of the law, according to the report.
2. Companies that came about because of the ACA include health insurance broker Stride Health and diabetes-prevention startup Omada Health, among many others. Both are in San Francisco.
3. As congressional Republicans continue efforts to dismantle the ACA, startups in Silicon Valley are trying to decipher what will happen to the law and wonder how its repeal will affect the region, reports The Washington Post.
4. For instance, Robert Wachter, interim chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, told The Washington Post he was “terribly concerned” the CMS Innovation Center could be cut. “Taking it down means Medicare will become far less innovative, less experimental and more risk-averse,” he told the publication.
For more on this story, read Elizabeth Dwoskin’s full report here.
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