It's not just individuals without employer health coverage who could lose big under the newly revised version of the Republicans' American Health Care Act.

People who get health coverage from their jobs could be left swinging in the wind, too—in fact, as many as half of all such employees could be affected.

That's according to an Alternet report that says an amendment added to the bill passed last week by the House of Representatives would allow insurers in states that get waivers from regulations put in place by the Affordable Care Act to deny coverage for 10 types of health services—including maternity care, prescription drugs, mental health treatment and hospitalization.

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