CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell is urging the incoming Trump administration to weigh patient access, health care quality and affordability in reconsidering the law that extended Medicaid and private insurance coverage to millions of Americans.
Burwell was in her native West Virginia on Tuesday to discuss health care. She and others called the coverage critically important.
The Affordable Care Act is a signature Obama administration initiative that president-elect Donald Trump has vowed to at least partly roll back. Trump has praised its guaranteed insurance coverage of people with pre-existing conditions and letting young adults remain on parents’ policies until age 26.
That 2010 law, called “Obamacare,” established exchanges where almost 13 million U.S. residents have enrolled for commercial insurance with about 7 million more joining expanded Medicaid.
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