A new analysis suggests that 52 million Americans could bedenied health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.
The analysis done by the Kaiser Family Foundation relies on thefact that one in four non-elderly adults in the U.S. has a medicalcondition that could lead an insurer to deny them coverage if theACA, which prohibits insurers from denying coverage based onpre-existing conditions.
The report’s authors note many of the 52 million people arecurrently covered by an employer-based health plan or Medicaid. Therefore, the report is notpredicting that that many people would be without coverage, butthat roughly a quarter of the U.S. population would be unable tobuy insurance in the individual market if necessary.
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