Abstract
The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) was introduced in the Senate on June 22, 2017, and is now under debate. The bill would eliminate much of the Affordable Care Act. In this report, we present state-by-state estimates of the impact of the BCRA on health care coverage and costs. Nationwide, we find that there would be 24.7 million more uninsured people under the BCRA by 2022. Federal funding for Medicaid, premium tax credits, and cost sharing reductions would be $140.4 billion lower under the BCRA in 2022, while state Medicaid spending would increase by $565 million.
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Click here to download tables with state-by-state data by adults, children, race, and ethnicity
The Urban Institute
by Linda J. Blumberg, Matthew Buettgens, John Holahan, Bowen Garrett, & Robin Wang
June 28, 2017