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Where Indiana hospitals stand on Affordable Care Act INDIANAPOLIS — If the Affordable Care Act is overturned, the Indiana Hospital Association is pushing for the United States Supreme Court to create a pathway to replace it. IHA President Brian Tabor said protections for the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, preventative care and coverage for pre-existing conditions are first priority. “I think what we need to have is a healthy debate around the best way to cover more people,” said Tabor. “And we need to make sure that is not a Republican or Democrat issue.” Tabor said he is open to look at plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. “As far as a full, comprehensive plan, I don’t think that exists today,” said Tabor. Because of that, IHA doesn’t support dismantling the ACA, but it would like to build upon it. “There have been some proposals out there that I think are of merit to look at how we might, for example, improve that healthcare exchanges in Indiana. We do need to have that market kind o

Fact check: Are Abbott’s ads defending Texas GOP under fire from Democrats over health care true? Last year, Texas passed a bill to protect coverage of pre-existing conditions, the ads brag. But the bill just set up a process for devising a fix for high premiums sick Texans paid – before 2013. Whether Republicans will protect sick people's health coverage -- if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional -- is a top topic in ads and attacks as Democrats seek to capture the Texas House. In pre-pandemic file photo, 2,000 Dallas residents crowded into a health fair at the Fireside Recreation Center last November. (Joseph Stoltz / Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Te) AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow Republicans in the Texas House, under attack from Democrats saying they haven’t done enough on health care, have responded by talking a lot lately about a bill they’ve passed in each of the past two legislative sessions. But did North Richland Hills GOP Sen. Kelly Hancock’s legislation really shie