Medicaid cuts could define midterms

Medicaid is set to become a key issue in the battle over control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections now that President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" has passed. 

Congress passed the largest Medicaid cuts in the program’s 60-year history through the GOP’s megabill right before the July 4th holiday, a $1 trillion reduction that's projected to push more than 12 million low-income individuals off their health insurance over the next decade.  

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Hassett on healthcare coverage cuts: ‘Best way to get insurance is to get a job’

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the best way for people to get health insurance is to get a job while discussing the massive tax cut legislation, which dramatically upends health care, signed into law by President Trump.

During an appearance on CBS News's "Face The Nation," Hasset was asked about Americans' concerns that about 12 million Americans could lose Medicaid coverage, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO...

How Trump’s megabill will impact health care 

The massive tax cut legislation passed by the House and Senate this week will dramatically upend health care in America.

The legislation, now on its way to President Trump, was never framed as a health bill, but it will mark the biggest changes to U.S. health policy since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010. 

The bill's provisions will impact patients, doctors, hospitals, and insurers, as Republicans partially paid for it by cutting more than $1 trill...

Massive Medicaid cuts to fuel midterm fights

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Trump’s budget bill sells out America’s future — soon, Republicans will pay 

Elon Musk is right: the massive cash giveaway to the richest at the expense of the poorest that Senate Republicans passed this week is “utterly insane and destructive.”  

Average Americans, and soon enough many Republican politicians, will regret the budget bill President Trump and the far-right have cooked up if, as expected, the full Congress passes a final version of the bill into law before the July 4 holiday. The bill will sell out the future of hundreds of millio...

‘It’s harsh. I mean, brutal’: Trump bill to cause most harm to America’s poorest

President embraces Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies to benefit wealthiest and hurt those earning under $50,000

Last November, Donald Trump made a solemn vow to all Americans: “Every citizen, I will fight for you, your family and your future every single day.” Eight months later, Trump is vigorously backing many policies that will mean pain for millions.

Trump has pushed to enact the Republican budget bill, which would make significant cuts to Medicaid, Obamacare, and food assistance, and would do the greatest damage to those Americans struggling hardest to make ends meet – the 30% of the US population that lives in households earning under $50,000 a year.

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