Local hospitals in the crosshairs of Obamacare repeal and replacement, Donovan to vote down current plan
The push to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could be very bad news for a number of Brooklyn hospitals.
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday, March 22 that the state Department of Health had determined that four local healthcare centers, Coney Island Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital System, Staten Island University Hospital and Richmond University Hospital — all located in Republican Congressmember Dan Donovan’s 11th Congressional District — would lose more than $37 million in funding if the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the ACA repeal and “replacement” effort, is passed in its current form.
The massive cuts in funding, Cuomo said, underscore the impact that the combination of the Chris Collins/John Faso Amendment and Paul Ryan’s original health care replacement plan will have on New Yorkers. The amendment, the governor stressed, would ban federal reimbursement for state Medicaid funds for local governments outside of New York City, cutting Medicaid for these local governments by $2.3 billion.