Pros And Cons Of Repealing The Affordable Care Act

When it comes to the extensive history of healthcare there have been different outcomes between people with or without insurance. There are some people that must rely on Medicaid to help with the coverage of their medical bills. The general goal of the Affordable Care Act was to extend the coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and controlling the growth of health care costs. Unfortunately, the Government says that they will be replacing the Affordable Care Act with something bigger and better. The Government should not be able to repeal the Affordable Care Act because it could cut Medicaid for the poor, pregnant women and even be unaffordable for the middle-class families who cannot get insurance through their jobs.

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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation states, “Many people do not have access to coverage through a job, and some people, particularly poor adults in states that did not expand Medicaid…” Just by having only 31 states make it eligible for certain people to get the Affordable Care Act is still hurting those that are in the other 19 states. There are still some people who remain ineligible and some that may not even know that they can get financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act. Most uninsured are families may have a very low-income and might only have one family member who is working. People that may not have insurance coverage have worse access to care than people who are insured. When some people who are uninsured go to seek help, there tends to be an unaffordable medical bill. There are downfalls where, “bills can quickly translate into medical debt since most of the uninsured have low or moderate incomes and have little, if any, savings” (KFF) The entire reason for having the Affordable Care Act is to help people and taking it away can increase the number of uninsured. Making changes to Medicaid can potentially do more harm than

The participation in a survey, “represents 3.8 million adults who enrolled… 92.9% reported having no other source of affordable insurance” (Wang 2). There are people who really depend on Medicaid to help cover the cost of expensive medical bills. Some people may be struggling just to get help from the Affordable Care Act and trying to change it into something “better” could make things even worse. When it comes to the cost of healthcare there is still a debate going on about whether or not the Affordable Health Care Act should be repealed. The Kaiser Family Foundation is leaning more towards what the outcome will be if the Affordable Health Care Act is repealed which means there will be a “limit growth in federal Medicaid spending beginning in 2020” (Kaiser Family Foundation). I am against the ACA being repealed because that will end up putting thousands of more people into debt and not being able to get the health care they need. Taking this away could lead to more deaths in the future because people can’t afford to pay for healthcare. The Common Wealth Fund talks about how the legislation was passing the ACA repeal in early 2016 before being vetoed by the Former President Obama. The Former President actually put some insight onto what the repeal would mean for Medicaid. Common Wealth Fund states, “The measure would have eliminated the expansion of eligibility to adults and to children ages 6 to 18 in families