The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday on a bill that would prevent hundreds of thousands of people from accessing affordable health care due to bureaucratic glitches.

HR 2581, or the “Verify First” Act, would create roadblocks to health care eligibility by making people pay the price for incomplete and deficient government databases. This would prevent people from being able to buy affordable, quality health insurance in ACA marketplaces like Washington Healthplanfinder and would make the immensely unpopular American Health Care Act even worse. This bill harms immigrants and citizens alike, hitting U.S. citizens born abroad, naturalized citizens and some lawfully present immigrants the hardest, including certain domestic violence survivors and victims of human trafficking.

Ahead of the House vote, 228 organizations, including NoHLA, called on Congress to oppose the measure.

Based on a report from the National Immigration Law Center