Forbes interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, managing directors with Manatt Health, for an article about President-Elect Donald Trump and the GOP’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
“The process of dismantling the ACA will be complicated and not immediate,” Ario and Brooks-LaSure said in a joint statement.
“With Republicans short of the 60 Senate votes needed to end a filibuster, the path to dismantling the ACA will focus on the budget reconciliation process, which only requires a majority vote,” the pair continued. “In other words, Senate Democrats can block the wholesale repeal of the law, though there will be pressure on Democrats from more conservative states on cloture votes depending on the issue.”
Read the article here.