Public News Service
By: Mark Richardson
The report by Urban Institute showed that approximately 2.6 million Texans would be left without healthcare coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. The director of the Children’s Defense Fund-Texas, Patrick Bresette, mentioned that this repeal would also affect greatly the healthcare market and the U.S. economy. For instance, during this next decade, Texas would lose about $62 million in federal healthcare funding alone.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, says that under the ACA, 95 percent of American children now have health insurance. “But now Congress is poised to take a U-turn and taking away affordable coverage options which would actually double the number of uninsured kids,” she states.
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