Here's who will lose their insurance if Obamacare is overturned

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The Affordable Care Act is once again facing legal hurdles after President Donald Trump and his administration supported a lawsuit questioning the health-care law's constitutionality. If the law is overturned without a replacement proposal, millions of Americans could lose their health care.

the law unconstitutional, citing the removal of a tax penalty levied against citizens without health insurance. The Trump administration reduced the tax penalty, called the individual mandate, to $0 in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Twenty-eight states use federally run marketplaces, while 12 states use their own state-based marketplaces. Eleven states use either federally supported state marketplaces or marketplaces that are run by a partnership between the federal government and the state. As of now, the federal government pays 90% of the cost in states that have expanded Medicaid, but if Obamacare is repealed, states would no longer receive that funding. Sommers said states don't have the resources to continue Medicaid expansion without federal funds, which could cause the people now insured through expanded eligibility to lose their coverage.Pre-existing conditions

 

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