Ascension executives criticize GOP health plan – STLtoday.com

The leaders of the nation's largest nonprofit health system say the GOP's health care plan "moves us in the wrong direction," according to an editorial in ModernHealthcare, a trade publication.

Tony Tersigni and Bob Henkel, executives with Edmundson-based Ascension, provide pointed criticism of the American Health Care Act that they say fails to ensure coverage for the nation's most vulnerable.

"Almost $900 billion of the net savings come from Medicaid the program designed to provide a safety net for the poor and vulnerable. That is simply untenable," the two executives write.

In the commentary signed by both Tersigni and Henkel, the two provide a few points by which they analyze all proposed health care legislation.

No bill should reduce access or coverage, they said. In fact, it should be expanded.

And any proposal should strengthen the individual market.

Read the editorial in its entirety here.

Ascension Healthcare operates more than 141 hospitals and 2,500 facilities in 24 states and Washington, D.C. Its a subsidiary of Ascension, the nations largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health care system.

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