Miller, McNamara seek state-level Affordable Care Act protections

Rob Borkowski

March 31, 2019 10:45 pm

R.I. Statehouse — SEN. JOSHUA MILLER and Rep. Joseph M. McNamara have introduced legislation to establish Affordable Care Act protections at the state level in the event continuing attacks against the federal law succeed in overturning it. / PBN FILE PHOTO/NICOLE DOTZENROD

PROVIDENCE – Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and House Health, Education and Welfare Committee Chairman Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick, have introduced legislation that would enact many provisions of the Affordable Care Act at the state level. The legislation would ensure the standards of the ACA – former President Barack Obama’s…