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CBO: GOP Medicaid plan would make 7.6 million people uninsured
- The House Energy and Commerce Committee is debating a GOP Medicaid bill expected to increase uninsured Americans by 7.6 million by 2034 nationwide.
- The bill aims to reduce federal expenditures by approximately $880 billion, primarily through cuts to Medicaid, in order to finance $4.5 trillion in tax reductions that support President Trump's policy goals.
- Key measures include more frequent Medicaid eligibility checks, work requirements for adults, restrictions on coverage for undocumented immigrants, and bans on youth gender transition procedures.
- Republican Representative Brett Guthrie stated that the savings generated by the bill would enable efforts to reinstate the Trump-era tax cuts, while Democrat Frank Pallone cautioned that passing the bill would result in millions of Americans losing access to their health care coverage.
- If passed, the bill may reduce health coverage after 2026, increase premiums, strain hospitals, and negatively affect vulnerable groups including seniors and children.
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More than 350,000 in San Diego County could be subject to Medi-Cal work rule
About 350,000 San Diego County residents would be affected by work requirements proposed in federal budget revisions debated in Washington this week. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved its piece of the larger spending package Wednesday, but only after a marathon discussion, a significant part of which focused on language that would impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries ages 19 to 64 who qualified for coverage throug…
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.”
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