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The Senate Finance Committee on Monday unveiled its portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” containing provisions on Medicaid, taxes and green energy tax credits. The committee’s text
A plurality of voters oppose the sweeping tax-and-spending legislation, with mixed opinions on specific provisions, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no Medicaid cuts. But what, exactly, would be a cut? Hawley and other Republicans acknowledge that the main cost-saving provision in the bill – new work requirements on able-bodied adults who receive health
Senate Republicans are taking a bigger swing at Medicaid in their version of legislation to fund President Trump’s domestic policy agenda and extend his first-term tax cuts. According to text released by the Senate Finance Committee late Monday,
House GOP leaders have been urging senators to make only minimal changes to their legislation to hold together their razor-thin majority.
To finance tax cuts, a GOP bill would reduce Medicaid payments to hospitals by $321 billion, hitting both blue and red states hard, a new report calculates.
The health policy nonprofit KFF estimated between 120,000 and 190,000 people in Colorado could lose their insurance, mostly through falling off the Medicaid rolls, over the next 10 years.
In addition to the impact to people on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act policies, the blow to hospital and other provider revenue will be drastic.