AHEC has recently completed an extensive fiscal and policy review of the Health Care Compact (HCC or compact), legislation that has been introduced in several states. The conclusion of our fiscal review of the HCC is that the compact's funding formula is fatally flawed and that it will shift $3 trillion of healthcare liabilities from the federal government onto the backs of the states. Our report even provides a break down of the fiscal shortfall that will be created in each state if the compact were to be widely adopted.

Ironically, the group pushing the HCC has confirmed AHEC's $3 trillion figure but has failed to inform state legislators of how this will impact their state's budget. It would be the height of fiscal irresponsibility for a state to pass the compact given the obvious flaws in the funding formula, particularly if a state does not have a plan in place to ensure that the state's most vulnerable citizens will not receive proper health care. Yet some states (Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and Missouri) have done just that.

READ AHEC'S FULL REPORT ON THE HCC HERE.

AHEC has previously discussed the myriad of problems with the Health Care Compact.  You can read much of AHEC's previous work on the HCC in the following places:

1. AHEC's Blog: The Connection of the HCC to Efforts to Enact Socialized Medicine
2. AHEC's Blog: The HCC will lead to Taxpayer Funding of Abortions and Free HealthCare for Illegal Aliens
3. A Line of Sight: A Conservative Assessment of the HCC

If you are concerned about the implications of the Health Care Compact, please call your state legislators (especially in Tennessee, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan and tell them to oppose the Health Care Compact).

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