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Center for American Progress
Moving Backward
Efforts to Strike Down the Affordable Care Act Put Millions of Women and Girls at Risk
By Jamille Fields Allsbrook and Sarah Coombs
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Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), all women with preexisting conditions in the individual market are assured fair access to comprehensive and affordable health coverage.

Unfortunately, recent efforts to repeal and undermine the law would put millions of women and girls at risk of losing part or all of their coverage once more. <[link removed]>

Before the ACA was enacted, women routinely were denied or charged more for coverage if insurers determined that they had a preexisting condition and, due to discriminatory gender rating practices, were often charged more solely on the basis of their gender.

If the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the entire ACA, there will be devastating consequences for everyone. But these negative outcomes will be most pronounced for the millions of women with preexisting conditions and, in particular, for women of color and women with low incomes, whose health and economic security would be most at risk.

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