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Repeal Of Obamacare Will Hit County Hard

BILL STRECK’S MESSAGE HOME: Repeal Of Obamacare Would Hit Here Hard The repeal of the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – would leave 5,700 Otsego County people uninsured, retired Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck, now chief medical and health systems innovation officer at HANYS (the state’s hospital association), told a mostly medical-sector crowd of 75 at Templeton Hall in Cooperstown this evening.  Shifting Medicaid from an entitlement to block grants might raise county government’s costs by $700,000, he said.  He also said U.S. Rep.…