CBO: GOP Medicaid plan would make 7.6 million people uninsured
- The House Energy and Commerce Committee is advancing a GOP Medicaid plan in May 2025 that would reduce coverage and spending nationwide.
- Republican lawmakers seek to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion to help finance $4.5 trillion in tax breaks favored by President Trump.
- The bill mandates frequent eligibility checks, restricts coverage for undocumented immigrants, bans funding for some procedures, and targets able-bodied adults without dependents.
- CBO estimates show 7.6 million would become uninsured and 10.3 million would lose some coverage by 2034, with projected savings of $625 billion over 10 years.
- This legislation could increase medical debt, burden hospitals, especially in states like Kentucky and California, and shrink Medicaid’s role as a safety net.
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Kentucky would be sicker, hungrier and poorer under U.S. House plan • Kentucky Lantern
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., left, and ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., right, speak during a markup of Medicaid budget cuts that are now before the full House, May 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)The U. S. House of Representatives is now considering a radical budget and tax plan that would take health coverage and food assistance away from more than 100,000 Kentuck…
Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back
We must not confuse statistical probability with some transcendental and utterly compelling force. — Unspiek, Baron Bodissey (Jack Vance) Republicans in the House of Representatives voted out of committee early yesterday morning legislation that would...
‘Death sentence’: Sen. Sanders on GOP Medicaid cuts
“When you throw 13 million people off health insurance, when you raise co-payments for poor people, it is a death sentence,” says Senator Bernie Sanders on the Republican plan to cut Medicaid. “Thousands and thousands of low-income and working people will die because they simply will not be able to get into a doctor’s office when they need it.”
Rep. Scott Peters' effort to protect Medicaid falls short in Congress
Rep. Scott Peters speaks during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. (File photo from Congressional video) As questions surrounding the future of government subsidized healthcare continue to swirl around Congress, Rep. Scott Peters voted against a plan to scale back one of the programs – to no avail. While Peters, D-San Diego, introduced an amendment aimed at protecting Medicaid during a meeting before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, i…
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