Boston health system execs warn mayor ACA repeal could lead to job cuts

Leaders of Boston's largest hospitals and health systems sat down with City Mayor Martin J. Walsh Friday to share their concerns about potential repercussions of an ACA repeal, including job cuts, according to The Boston Globe.

Hospital chiefs in attendance included those from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Carney Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Baptist Hospital and Tufts Medical Center, according to the report.

Mayor Walsh held the meeting to gather input from the city's leading hospitals on how their institutions may be affected upon the repeal and replacement of the ACA. He said he promised to share their concerns with his fellow mayors in cities across the U.S., according to the report.

During the meeting, the healthcare leaders primarily discussed how scrapping the ACA could destabilize their organizations and ultimately push them to implement job cuts. The effects of this would be far-reaching in Boston, where hospitals are among the largest private employers and play an important role in the local economy, according to the report.

"It will destabilize all of us," Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center President Peter Healy said in the meeting, according to the report. "We would all be having job losses."

Sandra L. Fenwick, CEO of Boston's Children's Hospital, said she's afraid Congress will "rush to get something done with a lack of knowledge about unintended consequences," according to the report.

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