CBO: Millions of people could lose insurance under GOP Medicaid options

[riversedge]

Source: the hill


by Nathaniel Weixel - 05/07/25 11:27 AM ET

Millions of people would lose health insurance coverage under various Republican options to cut Medicaid spending to pay for President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, according to a new analysis the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released Wednesday.

For instance, a cap Medicaid spending for beneficiaries in the expansion population would save $225 billion and result in 1.5 million additional people being uninsured by 2034.

Limiting state provider taxes would save $668 billion but would mean an additional 3.9 million uninsured people by 2034.

The analysis, requested by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), shows the difficult tradeoffs facing Republicans as they try to pay for their party-line bill, which among other provisions would fund an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5287540-republican-plan-health-insurance-millions/

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The best thing to do is to make sure Repugs are voted OUT of Congress.
The Repugs are bound and determined to take away Medicaid!!

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[riversedge]

1. ..........CBO's Wednesday report examined five of the Medicaid options Republicans have floated for the bill:

The NYTimes also has an article about this CBO report which I suspect is more detailed,
but I do not have a subscription.


..........CBO’s Wednesday report examined five of the Medicaid options Republicans have floated for the bill: eliminating the enhanced federal match for Medicaid expansion states, limiting state taxes on providers, capping federal Medicaid spending for the entire Medicaid population, capping spending for the expansion population only, and repealing a Biden-era Medicaid eligibility rule.

[LauraInLA]

4. If you can provide the NYTimes link, we can use archive.ph to post it.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Here's the article with no paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/upshot/medicaid-cbo-options.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.LfOZ.RLCjeTIEszBm&smid=url-share

[LauraInLA]

6. Thank you!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. But wait! BONUS! Trump is coming out with the best Health Care in 2 weeks!!!!

It's been 328 weeks in the making! Highly distilled!

[Bengus81]

3. Yeah Republicans...let em DIE, Corporations and the top 2-3% need to extend

their MASSIVE tax cuts till the sun burns out and FUCK the rest of you.

Vote these BASTARDS out of Congress in 2026.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Just like Reagan's tax bill allowed the first billionaires to be created, so this will allow the first trillionaires.

GO USA USA.. Elon Musk the first trillionaire and a "semi" American one at that.

We have to look at what is important in a capitalist society. So some die like they did with Reagans bill, just think about all the wealth that will move to Musk, Bezos Theil, etc.