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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “100,000 D.C. residents would lose their insurance if the Affordable Healthcare Act were repealed, and the estimated cost…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2017
100,000 D.C. residents would lose their insurance if the Affordable Healthcare Act were repealed, and the estimated cost to D.C. would be $1.1 billion.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton highlights the potential loss of insurance and economic impact of repealing the ACA in D.C.

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