Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States – The Tennessee Tribune

Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States – The Tennessee Tribune

On May 22, the House passed a reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest cost estimate shows that the bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million. Previous CBO estimates show that 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid. Building on prior KFF analysis, this analysis…