Public News Service
By: Mary Kuhlman
The Urban Institute research proved that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave more than 230,000 Iowans without healthcare coverage. The health policy associate for the Children and Family Policy Center in Iowa, Mary Nelle Trefz, mentioned that repealing the ACA could also make Iowa lose $7 billion in federal funding for healthcare services. Joan Alker, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, added that 82% of those 30 million people that could lose coverage nationally are working families, mostly non-Hispanic whites.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, says there’s a lot of misinformation about who would be most negatively affected by repealing the ACA. She explains it isn’t just people who are low-income. “Eighty-two percent of those losing coverage would be in working families,” she points out. “The majority of those are non-Hispanic whites. And 80 percent of the adults becoming uninsured would not have college degrees.”
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