Rep. Cummings Issues Response to Republican Plan to Repeal ACA
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* Approximately 4 million children under the age of 18 would lose coverage, causing the uninsurance rate among kids to spike from 4% to 9%. Children would comprise 13% of those who would lose coverage under partial repeal.
* The uninsured population would increase by 29.8 million in 2019, and the total number of uninsured people in 2019 would be 58.7 million, an increase of 103%.
* More people would be uninsured in 2019 than were uninsured in 2009 before the passage of the ACA.
* The share of nonelderly people who are uninsured would jump from 11% to 21%--a higher percentage than before the ACA.
* 82% of people who would lose insurance are from working families, 38% would be between the ages of 18 and 34, more than half (56%) would be non-Hispanic whites, and 80% of adults who would lose insurance would not have college degrees.
* 12.9 million people would lose
* Approximately 9.3 million people would lose premium assistance in the form of tax credits in 2019.
* State and local governments could be faced with
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