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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government,
Administrative/Regulatory

Jul. 27, 2017

An unhealthy congressional mess

To be sure, a congressional defunding of the ACA could be every bit as dangerous as a president with a smartphone. Outright elimination of ACA funding, however, still necessitates the authoring of viable alternatives before the next congressional election.

Craig B. Garner

Principal
Garner Health Law Corp.

1299 Ocean Ave Ste 450
Santa Monica , CA 90401

Phone: (310) 458-1560

Fax: (310) 694-9025

Email: craig@garnerhealth.com

Pepperdine University School of Law

Craig is also an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he teaches courses on hospital law and the Affordable Care Act.

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An unhealthy congressional mess
Vice President Mike Pence waits before President Donald Trump spoke at an event where he discussed what he said were the negative effects of the Affordable Care Act in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, July 24 (New York Times News Service)

“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.” — Vladimir Nabokov

The scope of medical technology is continually evolving. In 1967, a South African surgeon removed the heart from a 25-year-old female car-accident victim and placed it into the chest of a 55-year-old male dying of heart disease. The surgery was the first success of its kind, and the patient lived for an additional 18 days. Ten years later at Columbia-Presbyteri...

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