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Hospitals Fret Over Financial Impact Of Repealing Obamacare
Resume![The Silver Cross Emergency Care Center in Homer Glen, Ill., in 2013. (M. Spencer Green/AP)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/0112_hospital-1000x505.jpg)
Senate Republicans are one step closer to repealing Obamacare. Early this morning they voted 51-48 to approve a budget blueprint that would let them repeal major parts of the law.
There is no plan to replace the health care law yet, which is a concern for hospitals across the country.
Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with A. J. Wilhelmi, the president and CEO of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association (@IHAhospitals), about what's at stake for hospitals if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.
This segment aired on January 12, 2017.