FiveThirtyEight
By: Anna Maria Barry-Jester
House Republicans released their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but they will not be able to remove the whole law, since they would need support from Democrats. However, the changes proposed will definitively diminish the number of Americans that are received health care insurance as of now, thanks to Medicaid and CHIP.
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A 2010 Medicaid freeze in Arizona led to a swift decline in coverage as people’s incomes changed, removing nearly 70 percent of adults from the rolls in two years. And the number of children on a state health insurance program plummeted when it was frozen, resulting in more than 100,000 children ending up on the program’s waiting list 18 months later, according to research by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.
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