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Professor Orentlicher Discusses Incoming Administration's Potential Impact on Economy
11/16/2016
The impact of the incoming presidential administration is being forecast, and one of the first items on the agenda has reportedly been to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That will likely be easier said than done, said Professor David Orentlicher in a story for the Times of Northwest Indiana.
“It’s very hard to take away people’s benefits once they have them,” Professor Orentlicher said in the story. “It’s not just patients who are going to care, it's hospitals who are going to care, it's governors, physicians. If there are fewer people who can pay for health care, hospitals are going to have to cut their staffs. The political costs of repeal will probably be too high."
Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes in health care law and ethics.
