Senate wants more Medicaid cuts in Trump’s bill
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The GOP's "big beautiful bill" would require people up to age 64 to certify they're working to get aid. Here's what the research shows.
The Medicaid cuts passed by the House would result in anywhere between 8,000 and 25,000 preventable deaths annually, researchers found. These estimates may be conservative because they assume that states would make up half of any Medicaid shortfalls.
The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears. The measure is part of a sweeping federal spending bill supported by President Donald Trump that has cleared the House and is now being considered by the Senate.
Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such a step is essential to a properly functioning health care system. Forcing states to knock down the very health equity foundation they have built would truly be a “shift in kind.
A new Senate plan would tie Medicaid to 80-hour work requirements. Up to 5 million Americans could lose coverage, CBO warns.
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Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall led a delegation of Michigan Republicans to Washington for meetings with Trump administration officials.
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law June 6 requiring tens of thousands of Iowans on Medicaid to work or lose their health care coverage.
In defending Trump's signature spending bill—which could cut millions from the Medicaid rolls over the next decade—Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie said a study suggests millions of able-bodied people on the program are misusing time that could be spent at a job or benefiting the community.