Category: ACA

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Devastation, Death, and Deficits:The Impact of ACA Repeal on Pennsylvania

  By ACA, Health Care, PA Budget and Policy Center, Policy reports

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 is one of the most important pieces of domestic legislation enacted since the 1960s. It has had a dramatic impact in reshaping the provision of health care in the United States at a time when health care amounts to 18% of the United States economy. This report aims to quantify the benefits of the ACA to Pennsylvanians, in part by showing just how costly repeal of it will be. Click here to print or read full screen.   Continue reading

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What ACA Repeal Means in Pennsylvania

  By ACA, Health Care, PA Budget and Policy Center, PBPC Blog posts

We have seen politics in America take strange turns in the last few years, turns that often seem to reflect an almost total disregard of the basic facts of political and economic life. It is critical that we don’t allow this to happen in the debate about the Affordable Care Act. The consequences of repealing the ACA in Pennsylvania will be not only devastating, but deadly. We at PBPC are working on a detailed report about the consequences of repealing the ACA in our state. It will be ready soon. But the preliminary information we have compiled is so horrifying that we don’t want to wait to give you the broad outlines of what we are finding: ACA repeal will cause over 1 million Pennsylvanians to lose health insurance.Many of our fellow citizens will face dire health consequences for lack of health insurance as a result. ACA repeal will be… Continue reading