White House Suggests AHCA Stability Fund Could Fix Geographic Differences

By Amy Lotven / March 23, 2017 at 11:59 PM
A White House spokesperson recently suggested that the AHCA Patient and State Stability Fund -- initially set at $100 billion over a decade but to be increased by $15 billion as a result of last-minute talks on the GOP bill -- could be used to help residents in states like Alaska with significantly higher health costs than others. Alaska stakeholders and other experts have argued that the tax structure included in the GOP bill short-changes people living in states with...


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