Gov. Cuomo estimates more than 11,000 St. Lawrence County residents will lose health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.

Roughly 10 percent St. Lawrence County residents would lose health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, according to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Cuomo said the impact of potential repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on health care coverage of New Yorkers and the state budget would be massive.

In St. Lawrence County, Cuomo estimated that more than 11,000 people would lose coverage.

If the repeal of the Affordable Care Act were enacted, he estimated 2.7 million New Yorkers would lose coverage and New York State would experience a direct state budget impact of $3.7 billion and a loss of nearly $600 million of federal funding that goes directly to counties, which they use to help lower property taxes.

"The cost of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, to state and local budgets and to the New Yorkers who depend on its health care coverage, is simply too high to justify," Cuomo said. "Since its implementation, the Affordable Care Act has become a powerful tool to lower the cost of health insurance for local governments and New Yorkers, and it is essential that the federal government does not jeopardize the health and livelihoods of millions of working families."

The New York State of Health exchange has cut the percentage of uninsured New Yorkers in half, from 10 percent to 5 percent.

Cuomo says it has also significantly expanded eligibility and access to health coverage, allowing hundreds of thousands of previously uninsured New Yorkers to achieve economic and healthcare security. Based on current enrollment levels, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act would result in over 2.7 million New Yorkers losing health coverage.