The California Budget & Policy Center said it won’t only be people in Democratic strongholds who will feel the pain. Repealing the ACA could costs all those people their insurance, he said.
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Also, the state’s economy would fall by $69.5 billion from 2019-2023, and there would be a loss of $2.2 billion in state and local taxes. Savings associated with a partial repeal of the ACA, which is more realistic, vary widely according to which provisions of the complex law are removed.
“Nonetheless, this initial snapshot confirms that the ACA’s insurance market reforms are providing important protections to the up to half of Americans whose medical history previously put them at risk of being denied access to affordable health care”, wrote the DHHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, which compiled the report.
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When people lack health insurance coverage, “they don’t get preventive care because they can’t afford it”, she said, adding that can mean people not getting treatments like mammograms, colonoscopies or annual physicals, and then not seeking medical help until it’s too late.
That means Republicans will only need 50 of their 52 members in the Senate, and a bare majority in the House, to repeal the ACA – or at least parts of it. Counties have been able to use the additional federal Medicaid funding through the ACA, which goes to directly to counties and helps to lower property taxes. More than 374,000 Louisiana residents have received coverage under the newly-expanded program. More than five million Californians now receive ACA-supported health insurance through Covered California or Medi-Cal. How do we know this? “This is not a game”.
“These are people who work very hard”.
Speaking at a forum Friday, former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said the Trump administration represents a chance to re-frame the debate on health care.
Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway’s response, “We don’t want anyone who now has insurance to not have insurance”, on yesterday’s MSNBC’s Morning Joe might just become the biggest lie of the 115th Congress.
Croken said although they have seen a decrease, they still have concerns of the program being repealed.
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“We owe it to the American people to carry out the replacement now, with a smooth transition, so that we can grow the insured population without anyone losing their coverage in the process”, he told colleagues from the Senate floor on Thursday. This is true even if the repeal doesn’t actually take effect until sometime in the future; the uncertainty created by the repeal is likely to lead to a “near death spiral” of the individual marketplace. But the Republicans should be required to have an immediate replacement ready to go.
