Manhattan Times News
By: Andrea Sears
According to a new report from Urban Institute, more than 1 million of New Yorkers would no longer have healthcare coverage. The Vice President for Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York, Elizabeth Benjamin, mentioned that doing this would also affect children greatly, after the uninsured rate for children had dropped to just 2.5%.
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Joan Alker, Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, said nationally, almost 30 million people, mostly in working families, will lose their insurance if the ACA is repealed, and the number of uninsured children would double. “We need our congressional leaders to do the hard work of negotiating a replacement plan before they simply create chaos by repealing what’s in place,” she said.
But Alker pointed out that though insurance may be lost, families’ health care needs won’t go away. “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,” Alker added.
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