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7 details in the Republican health care bill that harm the poor

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“The Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health reform, had one big goal: to make health insurance more affordable and accessible to those who had trouble getting coverage.

In essence, that meant finding ways to get America’s poor — the millions who couldn’t pay for private health insurance or were ineligible for Medicaid — health coverage.

The new GOP health reform plan, the American Health Care Act, is filled with provisions — some subtle, some not — that’ll undo that work.”

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