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Hospitals Still Face an Ugly, Uncertain Future
Trumpcare's chances took a blow this week, but the uncertainty won't end soon.
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Trumpcare's chances of becoming law took a big hit this week. But the hospitals and Medicaid insurers directly in its path can't rest easy.
Shares of such companies rose on Thursday, presumably cheering the Congressional Budget Office's score of the House-passed version of the American Health Care Act. The CBO score, released Wednesday evening, raised substantial new roadblocks to Trumpcare's passage in the Senate. It said the law would take health care from 23 million Americans, barely improving on the 24 million in the CBO's score of an earlier version of the AHCA. It also warned the law would destabilize the individual insurance market and gut pre-existing condition protections for one-sixth of Americans.