Now she worries what would happen under the Republican plan if she left her job at a home health company that provides insurance. Fewer employers now offer health insurance for their retirees, she said. Consumers who could not afford high premiums would wind up with enormous out-of-pocket medical expenses. “It’s a huge challenge, even independent of the A.C.A.,” said John Graves, a health policy expert at Vanderbilt University. “Health care is a big-time barrier for a lot of people’s professional growth,” Mr. Evans said.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2017 21:22 UTC