Public News Service
By: Mary Kuhlman
According to the research by Urban Institute, repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave 960,000 Ohioans without health insurance. The CEO of Voices for Ohio’s Children, Brandi Slaughter, mentioned that even the partial repeal would affect the state’s federal funding – as the report showed that Ohio would be losing about $48 billion just on health services.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, says there is a lot of misinformation about who would be most impacted by a repeal of the ACA. She explains it’s not just those 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.”
Alker adds repeal would also cause chaos in state budgets. “Families’ health care needs won’t disappear if their coverage goes away,” she points out. “And the responsibility for responding to that will fall squarely into the states’ lap and we’ll have huge gaps in our health care safety net.”
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