NEW: CAP report lays out how ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos in ways people haven’t even considered. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2020/10/01/490916/chaos-repealing-affordable-care-act-coronavirus-pandemic/

#1: People with preexisting conditions and disabilities, including COVID-19 survivors, would be vulnerable to discrimination by insurers

Ways that ACA repeal would lead to chaos.

#2: ACA repeal would throw insurance markets into chaos as millions would lose coverage during a pandemic

Ways that ACA repeal would lead to chaos.

#3: Struggling small businesses and the self-employed could be priced out of coverage

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#4: Young people under the age of 26 could lose access to their parents’ insurance during this period of mass unemployment

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#5: Black, Native, and Latinx Americans who have been disproportionately harmed by COVID-19 would lose insurance in startling numbers

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#6: Insurers could again discriminate against women

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#7: For the tens of millions who would become uninsured, sending children to school becomes not only a health risk but a bankruptcy risk

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#8: Drug costs for seniors would soar, and millions more would not be able to afford their prescriptions during a public health crisis

Ways that ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos.

#9: Many hard-hit states would be further devastated by the elimination of Medicaid expansion