If you thought you were mystified by the ongoing efforts to replace Obamacare, then you’re not alone.
It seems that while repealing and replacing the system is certainly going to happen, the form its replacement will take remains something of a mystery.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive Stephen Hemsley said in a
Yahoo Finance report that: “It’s probably not often we say this but if you really have actually been following the media with respect to healthcare policy, I would say the media has been very accurate with respect to the narrative that is going on there.”
Hemsley told reporters in a media call that executives from his company have previously “engaged” with legislators to hash out details of the short-lived American Health Care Act, which lost momentum when Republicans abandoned it in a vote last month.
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Yahoo also reported that “no-one was sure what was actually being proposed” as the moderates and conservatives of the House GOP conference tried to revive the measure.
The significant presence of a Republican majority in the Upper and Lower Houses couldn’t resuscitate the AHCA as Congress took a two week recess.
“So, if you’re following the media, generally speaking, you would be up to speed,” Hemsley was quoted as saying. “We couldn’t probably offer any more insights than that.”
The chief executive of UnitedHealth, which has the largest policyholder base for health insurance in the US, said that its executives have been cooperating with lawmakers and have made proposals to help create a viable version of the aborted AHCA.
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