Fusion
By: Katie McDonough
House Republicans released their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Paul Ryan mentioned that the plan is all about “giving people more choices and better access to a plan they want and can afford.” However, they will be spending less money, which will probably mean that less people will have access to health care coverage.
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As noted by George Washington University health policy experts and professors Joan Alker and Kelly Whitener, about a third of those cuts—$116 billion—would come from what you could call the “non-expansion” side of Medicaid—the parts of the program that already covered kids, seniors, pregnant women, and people with disabilities.
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