Daily Kos - House Republican plans to slash $880 billion from the federal budget would lead to millions of Americans getting booted from their health insurance, according to a nonpartisan analysis released Wednesday.
Democrats asked the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan agency that analyzes the impacts of legislation, to review changes that House Republicans are debating making to Medicaid in order to finance President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which would extend his 2017 tax cuts for the rich and fund his evil immigration plans.
The CBO's report shows that the varying Republican plans would lead as many as 8.6 million low-income Americans to lose their Medicaid coverage and either have to pay for coverage or go without insurance.
In analyzing five different Republican proposals to cut Medicaid spending, the CBO found that all of them would lead to many, many Americans losing their Medicaid coverage.
"Medicaid cuts will result in the federal government paying more and a sicker society overall. Republicans don’t care as long it means a windfall for billionaires like Elon Musk," New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, the top Democrat of the House Energy and Commerce Committee who requested the CBO analysis, said in a Wednesday post on X.
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