Article snippet: Senate Republican leaders are planning to move fast now that legislation was revealed on Thursday to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- otherwise known as ObamaCare -- and drastically change the current healthcare landscape. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he ambitiously hopes to pass the bill before the July 4 recess -- but in order to do so, Republicans would need to bypass the traditional committee process and forgo public hearings. While advocacy groups argue the effects of the bill are complex and demand debate, many health care providers argue that women's health in particular could be greatly impacted if the bill were to pass. Here are some of the ways the legislation could potentially impact women in the U.S.: One program the bill contains significant cuts to is Medicaid, which currently provides health insurance for 74 million Americans. Experts argue that the Medicaid cuts proposed in the bill could impact women in particular, because of the disproportionately large number of low income women and women of color who depend on the program -- particularly for maternity care. “Women are much more likely to work in low wage jobs and be tip workers. All of those jobs are more likely to come without health insurance,” Andrea Flynn, an economic policy fellow at The Roosevelt Institute said. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on major healthcare issues, reported in 2015 that about half of all births in the U.... Link to the full article to read more