The White House wants to tell people in Alabama, Kansas, and Montana in very specific terms what repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean for them.
For example: 141,000 people in Alabama received free preventive care in 2011 and 2012 because of the law; 1.2 million people in Kansas who have pre-existing conditions no longer have to worry about being denied coverage; and more than 13,000 Montanans have received rebates from their insurance company through Obamacare’s new rules.
The administration has always based its argument against repeal on those tangible benefits that people have and will receive, but Thursday’s 50-state report (below) is an attempt to make that argument hit a little closer to home.
“It’s time for Republicans in Congress to stop refighting old political battles over health care, because the real cost of repeal will hit home for many hardworking American families,” the White House said in a statement accompanying the new report.
It comes as congressional Republicans are signaling that they’ll continue to make their case for repeal through exhaustive oversight of the law’s struggles.
The full report is below.
