“We want to make surepeople with pre-existing conditions have coverage,” said SeemaVerma, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices. (Photo: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg)
A top Trump administration health official says there's acontingency plan to preserve a key part of Obamacare if a federal judge in Texas overturns the 2010 lawin a court ruling that could come any day.
|“We do have contingency plans. We want to make sure people withpre-existing conditions have coverage,” said Seema Verma,administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices.
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Verma, who spoke at a breakfast with reporters in Washington,declined to give details on the contingency plans.
|Her agency is responsible for much of the federal oversight ofObamacare, which provides subsidized insurance coverage to millionsof Americans. The law also bars health insurers from chargingpeople more based on existing medical conditions, a particularlypopular provisions that Republicans have said they'll preserve nomatter what.
|A federal judge in Fort Worth could rule any day on whetherObamacare is unconstitutional. It's likely that any decision by thejudge would be stayed until a higher court can review it.
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