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Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Will Affect This State Most


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The city where the most people would be personally affected by the Republican-led repeal of Obamacare is Miami.

 

According to recent data, the three congressional districts that have among the highest number of Affordable Care Act enrolless are represented by Republicans. This poses a wrinkle to those House members following their Senate colleagues voting to begin the process of dismantling the 2010 federal law that extended health insurance to as many as 20 million Americans.

 

There are over 96,000 people enrolled in the Florida district represented by Republican Lleana Ros-Lehtinen, the highest number in the U.S., according to estimates by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

Her district is followed closely in terms of enrollees, by Republican carlos Curbelo, whose wouthwest Miami-Dade and Monroe County district has 92,500 enrolled in the insurance marketplaces created by Obama and the Affordable Care Act.

 

Rep. Frederica Wilson opposes rescinding the law,. She has the third-greatest number of enrolles at 94,100, followed by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, whose Hialeah to Naples district has 83,300 enrolled in the health care program.

 

“These numbers should give them pause,” said Mangat, an allergist in St. Petersburg. “these are people whose lives have been saved or changed because of the Affordable Care Act.

 

Every eight out of 10 people in South Florida qualify for the ACA’s advanced premium tax credit, a federal subsidy that pays an average of $324 per month toward their marketplace insurance, according to Florence French, South Florida regional director for Enroll America.

 

According to French, subsidy recipients pay just $75 a month or less for marketplace coverage.

 

“It would be a really, really devastating blow to these people to go back to the way it was in 2013 when they had no insurance and they were going into the emergency room to see a doctor rather than being able to have a primary care physician,” French said.

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