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By LAUREN FOX Published DECEMBER 29, 2016, 6:00 AM EST
Republicans in Congress are waiting with bated breath for the moment when they pass a repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017 and President-elect Donald Trump goes to sign it, but it's their colleagues back in their home states that may have the most to lose from scrapping the law.
The repeal plans congressional Republicans have floated wouldn't likely take effect until 2019 or 2020. But already, governors and state legislatures are voicing concerns that repealing the ACA may leave millions of people uninsured, as well as take away some of the mechanisms that helped their states drastically slash their uninsured rates.
At the top of their list of concerns is the fact that the most likely blueprint in Congress for repeal, a 2015 bill that President Barack Obama vetoed, would also repeal federal funding for Medicaid expansion, which was estimated to have helped cover 11 million adults across the country in 2015. Ten Republican governors have taken advantage of the expansion, which was so successful in some places like Kentucky that, even though Gov. Matt Bevin (R) campaigned on scrapping the ACA, he simply made some tweaks to the program once he took office.
The Congressional repeal plan from 2015 would also repeal tax increases that were part of the ACA, likely shifting the burden for paying for health care from the federal government to individual states.
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sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)I've had a screenshot for some time of his twitter during the election , 2 tweets specifically with the 1st being a tweet announcing Melania was being interviewed and that tweet had over 21 thousand likes. The one immediately before it was him saying the first thing he would do was sign a bill to repeal Obamacare. It had SIXTY LIKES. Not 60K, 60. They don't want it repealed either.
I do not know how to post pics here, but if someone tells me I can try to post it.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)and call it Trump care. Add a public option medicare for all and call it Trump cares about everyone. There you go.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Yes to the public option!
They named it Obamacare! I even waned them repeatedly against doing so.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)But here's an undeniable fact: Republicans will still die. Under this Republican Congress, millions more will die faster, in more pain...and they still won't take one red cent with them in the process. None of them. Including the souless politicians. ( who don't give much of a damn about their colleagues back home)
With Republicans, it is never about "the people"