According to a former Medicare administrator, it's likely that two programs included in the Affordable Care Act (AKA "Obamacare") will remain unfunded.
Those programs, an initiative to monitor for-profit nursing home chains and a push for electronic health records in nursing homes, could be doomed by the current budgetary environment in Congress. Other components of "Obamacare" are already feeling the pinch.
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