So if you were in charge of the nation’s budget, what would you do?
How would you continue this progress and help ensure Americans get the quality, affordable coverage they need?
Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Or
Continue to support the Affordable Care Act
While Congressional Republicans seem to favor this approach – having tried to repeal or undermine the ACA more than 50 times – it’s not one that will actually deliver the results you’re looking for. If you repeal the ACA, 16 million Americans could lose health coverage and millions more will lose out on the new benefits under the ACA, including free preventive services like cancer screenings. In fact, by repealing the Affordable Care Act and cutting Medicaid, their plan eliminates health coverage for as many as 36 million Americans.
So, in fact, this accomplishes the opposite of what you may hope to do for yourself, your community, and the American people at large. And yet, Republicans are attempting once again to repeal the ACA in their budget.
Especially since the ACA has already helped deliver affordable, quality health coverage to more than 16 million Americans and counting. What’s more, if the 22 states who haven’t expanded Medicaid would actually take advantage of that opportunity under the ACA, nearly 5.1 million more Americans would get the insurance they desperately need. In short, the ACA is working and we should stick with what works.