Donald Trump and Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Now, Americans across the country are bracing for the fallout. In Arizona, families relying on at-home disability services are bracing for cuts that would upend daily care. In California, rural clinics say federal grants cannot come close to replacing Medicaid funding. In Massachusetts, health leaders are scrambling to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from losing coverage altogether. Experts predict devastating ripple effects: missed cancer screenings, rising untreated mental illness, and worsening outcomes for people with disabilities and chronic conditions. American families are left paying the price as the consequences are beginning to spiral.
National Coverage
NBC: Families Caring for Disabled Relatives Face Unthinkable Choices as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Axios: Why Kids’ Medicaid Enrollment Keeps Falling
WUSF: Report: Latinos Face ‘Unprecedented’ Health Coverage Losses Amid Cuts to Medicaid, ACA
STAT: Scrambling for Work Requirement Exemptions
Pluribus News: Federal Cuts Prompt States to Revisit Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansion
UChicago News: Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause 1 Million Missed Cancer Screenings
Arizona
Hoodline: Medicaid Meltdown Has Phoenix Families Fearing Home Care Cuts
KJZZ: Arizonans With Disabilities Depend on At-Home Services. Medicaid Cuts Could Erode the Program
California
Public News Service: CA Rural Health Clinics Say Grants Can’t Replace Medicaid
Westside Connect: Stanislaus County Prepares to Lose Millions Due to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Santa Barbara Independent: Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Threatens Santa Barbara County with $11 Million a Year in New Indigent Care Costs
Oaklandside: At a ‘Die-In’ in East Oakland, Protesters Slam Trump Healthcare Cuts
Colorado
Aspen Times: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Signs State Budget, With Medicaid Taking Brunt of Cuts to Close $1 Billion Gap
Daily Camera: Opinion: Congress Lied. Now Colorado’s Medicaid Cuts May Now Force Me Into a Wheelchair.
Kentucky
WHAS: Disabled Community Feeling Effects of Rising Costs, Medicaid Cuts
Courier Journal: Opinion: When Medicaid Dries Up, Mental Health Struggles Won’t Stop
Massachusetts
Boston Globe: Massachusetts Health Leaders Scramble to Prevent 300,000 From Losing Medicaid Coverage
Montana
KTVH: Health Care Advocates Concerned About Impacts of Medicaid Work Requirements
Glasgow Courier: Medicaid Cuts Could Drive Up Healthcare Costs in Valley County
New York
WKBW: ‘It Will Be Devastating’: WNY Leaders Warn Medicaid Cuts Could Strip Coverage From Thousands
North Carolina
NC Health News: NC Families With Disabled Children Press Lawmakers to Maintain Funding as Federal Medicaid Cuts Loom
Ohio
Statehouse News Bureau: Report: More Than Half a Million Ohioans Could Lose Medicaid Coverage in Next Decade
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Pa. Grapples With Implementing Medicaid Work Requirements
Pennsylvania Independent: ‘Quickly Unfolding Healthcare Catastrophe’: What Medicaid Cuts Are Doing to Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer: Opinion: In Philly, Medicaid and SNAP Cuts Will Be Big — But Not Beautiful
Virginia
WAMU: Opioid Overdoses Have Fallen Dramatically in Virginia. Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Treatment Access
Wisconsin
Civic Media: Medicaid Cuts Are Hurting Wisconsin
Wisconsin Independent: GOP Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt Wisconsinites, ER Doctor Says