Geoff Bennett:
The Affordable Care Act faces major rollbacks if the president’s big spending and tax cut bill is approved by the Senate. The proposed changes could affect many of the 24 million Americans enrolled in that insurance marketplace and could leave millions of people without coverage.
The House and Senate versions of the so-called one big, beautiful bill differ, but they have key changes in common, including shortening enrollment periods, requiring additional verification and effectively ending automatic renewals of insurance, making health premiums more expensive and higher cost-sharing, and blocking subsidies for many legal immigrants, refugees and those on student visas.
For more, we’re joined now by Sarah Kliff, health policy reporter for The New York Times.
Sarah, thanks so much for being here.
So these changes we mentioned, help us understand how significant they would be for people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for insurance coverage.
