Days after the Trump administration ramped up its attack on the Affordable Care Act, health officials and lawmakers in Connecticut were still decrying the move and exploring its effects should a repeal succeed.
Co-chairs of the legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee called on the president Thursday to reverse himself and leave the health law alone, while detailing the ways Connecticut residents would be impacted if the ACA disappears.
“Our constituents literally cannot afford to have the Affordable Care Act repealed, and to do what he’s doing now is going to jeopardize so many lives here,” Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, said of Trump.
Sen. Matthew Lesser, D-Middletown, a cancer survivor, said the decision was “stunningly irresponsible.”
“It would cause massive disruption to our insurance industry and to our entire health care system,” he said. “It would affect every hospital and every medical practice in the state of Connecticut.”
Earlier this week, Attorney General William Tong and legal leaders in 20 other states filed an opening brief in their appeal of Texas v. the United States, the lawsuit brought by a coalition of Republican-led states that argues the entire health law should be invalidated. Tong and others have charged that every provision of the Affordable Care Act should remain intact.
If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sides with the Trump administration, tens of millions of people nationwide could lose their health insurance.
Here’s a look at how a repeal of the nine-year-old law would affect Connecticut:
How many people would lose their health insurance?
In Connecticut, 111,066 residents purchase their insurance...
from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Obamacare-repeal-would-jeopardize-so-many-13726430.php
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