Despite overwhelming public opposition, warnings from experts, doctors, and hospitals, and reams of evidence showing the deadly consequences, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have passed the largest health care cuts in history. The GOP bill guts Medicaid, shreds the Affordable Care Act, and threatens the well-being of millions in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Not only will this bill rip health care from millions of hardworking Americans, it will drive up costs for working families, shutter hundreds of hospitals, leave children with disabilities and people fighting cancer without lifesaving care, and make a record increase in the number of uninsured Americans. The consequences will be devastating, and the responsibility lies squarely with every lawmaker who supported this bill. The headlines below reveal the truth: millions will lose care, chaos will ripple through our system, and the sickest among us will pay the highest price.
Wall Street Journal: How Healthcare Cuts in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Affect Americans
- “‘The magnitude of these reductions—and the number of individuals who will lose health coverage—cannot be simply dismissed as waste, fraud, and abuse,’ Rick Pollack, president of the American Hospital Association, said after the House narrowly passed the bill.”
The Guardian: Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Are Coming for Rural Americans: ‘It’s Going to Have to Hit Them First’
- “‘Ultimately, Medicaid being cut is going to kill people,’ said Molly Zenkler, a nurse at Mission hospital in Asheville. ‘I deal with people getting their feet literally amputated because they don’t have access to diabetic care. This is just going to get increasingly worse.’”
Rolling Stone: Trump’s Big Bill Will Make Americans Uninsured Again
- “That ‘immaterial minutiae,’ experts estimate, could cause as many as 200,000 preventable deaths when Americans can’t access the care or treatments they need, hospitals and nursing homes shut down, and insurance premiums become even more unaffordable.”
AP News: Rural Hospitals Brace for Financial Hits or Even Closure Under Republicans’ $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut
- “If those facilities close, many locals would see their five-minute trip to Webster County hospital turn into a nearly hour-long ride to the nearest hospital offering the same services. ‘That’s a long way for an emergency,’ Sherman said. ‘Some won’t make it.’”
USA Today: Trump Signs Megabill That Slashes Taxes, Medicaid While Boosting National Debt
- “CBO projects it will result in 12 million people losing health insurance, while the Senate Joint Economic Committee Minority estimates that about 20 million people could lose coverage. Medicaid is being cut by nearly $1 trillion.”
The Atlantic: Annoying People to Death, Why the Medicaid Work Requirement Is a Terrible Idea
- “Rather, it will saddle taxpayers with billions of dollars of new costs and low-income Americans with hundreds of millions of hours of busywork. Red tape will cause millions of people to lose health coverage, some of whom will perish because they cannot access care. Republicans are not protecting Medicaid. They are voting to annoy their own constituents to death.”
Forbes: Diagnosing Medicaid Cuts To Hospitals In The One, Big, Beautiful Bill
- “Hospital and health system workforce reductions directly reduce healthcare access and quality for all patients, residents, destabilize local economies, and create a cycle of declining health and economic outcomes, especially in rural and underserved areas.”
Politico: Republicans Just Cut Medicaid. Will It Cost Them Control of Congress?
- “‘What we know from past elections is that messing with people’s healthcare coverage is very problematic for politicians. And it has, in the past, yielded some very, very negative views about the people who supported it,’ said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.”
The Bulwark: An Ignominious Bill Passed by an Inglorious Body
- “The effects of the health care cuts will ripple through communities, because even if you don’t rely on Medicaid or Obamacare you may rely on hospitals that lean heavily on those programs for funding.”
The Conversation: Rural Hospitals Will Be Hit Hard by Trump’s Signature Spending Package
- “As researchers studying rural health and health policy, we anticipate that these reductions in Medicaid spending, along with changes to the Affordable Care Act, will disproportionately affect the 66 million people living in rural America – nearly 1 in 5 Americans.”
NBC News: How New Medicaid Work Requirements Could Affect Families With Disabled Children
- “With President Donald Trump’s signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Medicaid recipients will need to meet new nationwide work requirements. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah reports on one recipient who relies on the coverage to support her and her son, who has a rare genetic condition.”