http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/what-would-happen-if-gop-actually-repealed-obamacare
If the Supreme Court stopped subsidies from flowing to the 34 states that did not establish their own exchanges, 8.2 million fewer people would have coverage by 2016, according to research released this month
by the Urban Institute, an economic and policy research outfit. Next
year, the number of people insured through purchasing private plans
would drop by 69 percent.
Without subsidies to purchase insurance, many people would
immediately lose coverage because they could no longer afford it. Others
could be kicked off their plans without Obamacare's protections for
people with pre-existing conditions. "You would just have an awful lot
of people be uninsured, and then that ripples back through the health
care system," Jost says. "Basically, you would have a lot of people die
because they couldn't get health care."
This is just the tip of the iceberg. A roll back of the Medicaid
expansion would cause millions more Americans to lose their coverage and
create mayhem for state governments. Without the ACA to plug the
so-called "donut-hole" for prescription drugs, seniors would see their
drug bills go up.
A Supreme Court decision against Obamacare would cost millions of
Americans their coverage, but full repeal by Congress would be even more
devastating. Health care experts describe a state of complete chaos
were the ACA to simply disappear from the books.
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