“A disaster for Washington.” That’s how Governor Jay Inslee describes the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) with the American Health Care Act (go ahead and call it “Trumpcare”). In this state, Inslee said, killing Obamacare could reverse years of progress, driving the numbers of uninsured Washingtonians to levels higher than before the ACA. The hardest hit: 600,000 low-income Washingtonians who got Medicaid coverage when Obamacare expanded that program. (Another 100,000 people may drop out of the private insurance market under the GOP plan, the state estimates.) With Trumpcare headed for a full US House vote as early as March 23, here’s a look at how many Medicaid recipients stand to lose coverage in each of Washington’s 10 congressional districts—and what the representatives from each of those districts have to say about it.
