Ahead of a pivotal Senate vote TODAY to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, PASNAP Executive Board Members, representing more than 11,000 nurses and allied professionals from across the commonwealth, warn, failure to extend ACA subsidies will trigger a statewide healthcare and economic crisis—one that will affect every patient, every family, and every hospital in the Commonwealth, officials say.
If Congress fails to act to restore enhanced premium subsidies for insurance bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplace (Pennie), care in Pennsylvania will be utterly destabilized as the cost of healthcare explodes, PASNAP warns.
According to Nurse and Allied Professional Association, 100’s of thousands of Pennsylvanians – including laboring mothers, trauma victims, those fighting life-threatening disease – will be unable to afford the increases and will lose access to critical, life-saving care.
“With deep cuts to Medicaid looming as well, this crisis is coming. At the bedside, we are already seeing the signs.”
PASNAP executive board members released a video to speak out on e looming “healthcare and economic crisis.”
