Data from Massachusetts General Hospital Provide New Insights into Surgery (Contextualizing the first-round failure of the AHCA: down but not out)

Politics & Government Week

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Fresh data on Surgery are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Boston, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "On 8 November 2016 the American electorate voted Donald Trump into the Presidency and a majority of Republicans into both houses of Congress. Since many Republicans ran for elected office on the promise to 'repeal and replace' Obamacare, this election result came with an expectation that campaign rhetoric would result in legislative action on healthcare."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Massachusetts General Hospital, "The American Health Care Act (AHCA) represented the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Key elements of the AHCA included modifications of Medicaid expansion, repeal of the individual mandate, replacement of ACA subsidies with tax credits, and a broadening of the opportunity to use healthcare savings accounts."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Details of the bill and the political issues which ultimately impeded its passage are discussed here."

For more information on this research see: Contextualizing the first-round failure of the AHCA: down but not out. Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, 2017;9(6):595-600. (BMJ Publishing Group - group.bmj.com/; Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery - jnis.bmj.com/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.A. Hirsch, NeuroInterventional Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Additional authors for this research include A.B. Rosenkrantz, G.N. Nicola, H.B. Harvey, R. Duszak, E. Silva, R.M. Barr, R.P. Klucznik, A.L. Brook and L. Manchikanti.