{"id":6107,"date":"2016-12-12T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2016-12-23T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:02:18","slug":"report-aca-repeal-without-replacement-could-hurt-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"Report: ACA Repeal Without Replacement Could Hurt Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new Urban Institute report says a repeal of the Affordable Care Act could double the number of uninsured children in the United States. Photo: photostorm\/iStockphoto<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mark Richardson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 The incoming Trump administration and a Republican Congress are vowing a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but they\u2019re vague about a replacement plan.<\/p>\n

A new report from the Urban Institute<\/a> says a repeal could cost as many as 30 million Americans access to health care, including some 2.6 million people in Texas.<\/p>\n

Patrick Bresette, director of the Children\u2019s Defense Fund-Texas, says repealing Obamacare could bring unintended consequences to the health care market and the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere should be no way that Congress is allowed to repeal this without a clear plan of what they are going to replace it with, or pulling out certain aspects of it,\u201d he stresses. \u201cWe\u2019ve likened it to the game Jenga, where you pull out one block and you think you\u2019ve only dealt with that, but the ripple effects are going to be enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study shows that a repeal would increase the number of uninsured Texans to 6.9 million people, keeping the state with the highest uninsured rate in the country.<\/p>\n

Texas would also lose $62 billion in federal health care funding over a 10-year period.<\/p>\n

Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, says that under the ACA, 95 percent of American children now have health insurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now Congress is poised to take a U-turn and taking away affordable coverage options which would actually double the number of uninsured kids,\u201d she states.<\/p>\n

Bresette adds that it\u2019s not just the poor who have benefited from Obamacare.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us are paying a little bit less for health insurance than we might,\u201d he points out. \u201cWe\u2019ve got protections for pre-existing conditions, elderly people on Medicare benefited from improvements in prescription drug costs. So I think that it\u2019s important to remember that we\u2019ve all benefited one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report says the \u201crepeal through reconciliation\u201d plan could cut financial assistance with premiums, individual and employer mandates and the Medicaid expansion, while keeping some reforms such as a ban on exclusions for pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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