Families USA: New Numbers – 18 Million People Could Lose Coverage If Congress Does Not Act Now
In the 12 years since then-President
ACA's Promise of Affordable Health Coverage for Families Across America Is at Risk as Pandemic-Era Policies Expire highlights how the ACA has helped tens of millions of people gain access to health insurance by increasing Medicaid eligibility, ensuring fewer administrative barriers to coverage and improving marketplace affordability.
The report warns those gains could quickly turn into losses if policymakers continue to stand on the sidelines. The American Rescue Plan increased ACA affordability, but the enhanced advance premium tax credits (APTCs) will expire at the end of 2022 without congressional action. And the Families First Coronavirus Response Act suspended Medicaid disenrollment and enhanced the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, but both of those policies are tied to the public health emergency, which could end as soon as July, unceremoniously dropping people from insurance overnight. Almost 18 million people could lose coverage due to cost, a frenzied eligibility redetermination process and bureaucratic paperwork.
"This is the moment to build on the ACA's historic successes in increasing affordability, improving access, and helping millions of families get and keep health coverage -- especially as we battled the worst public health emergency in at least a century," said
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REPORT: https://familiesusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/COV-2022-37_ACA-Report.pdf
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