If president-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress repeal Obamacare as they promised, more than 20 million Americans — including about a million Pennsylvanians — could lose their health insurance.
Congressional Republicans have been trying to repeal the federal Affordable Care Act since it was passed six years ago, even as millions of Americans signed up for subsidized health plans on the law’s insurance marketplace and enrolled in expanded state Medicaid programs. When repeal proposals reached President Obama’s desk, he vetoed them.
Some of the latest proposals, which could be revived when Trump reaches office, would reverse the Medicaid expansion and eliminate the subsidies. Changes outlined in a proposal that both houses of Congress passed early this year would cut an estimated 22 million people from insurance, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.
“I don’t think we’ve seen anything on this scale,” said Julie Donohue, an associate professor of health policy and management in the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. “… It would be unprecedented.” For the full article click here
from health IT caucus http://healthitcaucus.com/pennsylvania-has-1m-in-path-of-obamacare-repeal/
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