If the American Health Care Act becomes law, it could largely affect Texas' Medicaid beneficiaries, NPR reports.
Here's what you should know.
1. The AHCA would leave some state funding streams' status undecided. Anne Dunkelberg, a spokesperson with the liberal-facing Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, Texas, said the future of the uninsured resident reimbursement fund is particularly concerning.
2. Texas has the most uninsured residents throughout the United States.
3. The AHCA's block grant provision would severely limit how many Texans could receive medical care. Children, pregnant women, seniors and disabled people would be the first to lose coverage, according to Adriana Kohler of the Austin, Texas-based, liberal-facing Texans Care for Children advocacy group.
Those four groups make up 96 percent of Texas' Medicaid beneficiary base.
4. Republican advocacy groups mirror their liberal counterparts opinions.
Deane Waldman, MD, of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation said, "It's a bad deal for Texas. It's a bad deal for the American people."
5. The AHCA allows for Medicaid expansion up until 2020, and Dr. Waldman believes several states will take advantage of it. If that happens, prices will rise drastically.
6. If legislators implement the AHCA in its current form, Texas will split an estimated $10 billion grant between other non-expansion states over five years.