PoliticoPro interviewed Manatt's Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health Solutions, for an article on how the health law could be undermined if the Obama administration doesn't finalize one of the last remaining pieces of the Affordable Care Act.
PoliticoPro reports that the ACA allows states beginning in 2017 to set up their own alternative to the health care law using 1332 waivers. ACA supporters are worried that the waivers could be used by conservative states to bypass onerous parts of the law.
"Coverage, affordability, budget neutrality - all of them have many unanswered questions," said Ario. "There would be a lot of unanswered questions in the next administration."