ACA repeal could complicate Medicaid reforms

Valerie Davidson, commissioner of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services in 2015. She’s concerned about the effect of an Affordable Care Act repeal. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
State health leaders say a federal repeal of the Affordable Care Act could make it difficult to implement reforms to Medicaid. That could cost the state the tens of millions of dollars that lawmakers are counting on.
Many of the reforms the Legislature included in the Medicaid law it passed