Senate Bill to Repeal ACA Threatens Access to Health Coverage and Care for Millions
The U.S. Senate’s renewed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and impose other far-reaching changes on the U.S. health care system would do immense harm. The bill would undo most of the ACA’s gains in insurance coverage and roll back access to reproductive health coverage and care. Some of its most harmful provisions would:
Impose devastating cuts on the Medicaid program, which insures almost 13 million low-income U.S. women of reproductive age
Allow states to undermine the requirement that all health plans cover maternity-related care
Attack Planned Parenthood, a key provider of contraceptive services and other preventive care
Restrict many private insurance plans from covering abortion care
