Mick Mulvaney’s Misleading Claim That House GOP Health Care Plan Keeps Medicaid Expansion

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By: Lauren Carroll

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more than 10 million Americans have received health care insurance coverage. However, if the Congress repeals this act, and replaces it with the House Republicans plan, about 14 million people will be left without health care insurance coverage by 2026.

“States don’t have the wherewithal to pick up all of the substantially increased burden — especially when the next recession comes,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

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