Manatt's Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was interviewed by Modern Healthcare for an article on Senate Minority Leader Mich McConnell's (R-KY) confusing comments about Kentucky's state health exchange.
As reported by Modern Healthcare, McConnell has said that repealing the Affordable Care Act would not necessarily mean shutting down Kentucky's popular insurance exchange that was established under the law. His claim has left many people puzzled.
Ario said the exchange, called Kynect, could not function without the regulatory framework and subsidies that define the marketplace. "It's very hard to square the circle," he said. "He's saying, 'I like Kynect, and I like the storefront … but at the same time, I want to take away the law that is the source of all those products in the store.'"
Read the article here.