Trump, Medicaid
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The bill, ushered through Congress by Republican leadership and signed by Trump Friday, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, slashes spending on Medicaid, and creates temporary tax deductions for overtime and tipped income. It includes $170 billion for immigrant detention and for new personnel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to estimates from Manatt Health, rural hospitals stand to lose $70 billion over the next decade as a result of Trump’s tax cuts and spending legislation. Put it another way: Hospitals are projected to lose 21 cents from every Medicaid dollar received.
The massive bill is guided by spending requests from the White House. It will extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, while cutting billions of dollars in social program funding. It’s been described as the largest cuts to social welfare programs since at least the 1990s, and according to some experts the most severe in modern history.
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State officials estimate 310,000 Pennsylvanians will lose Medicaid coverage and anticipate strain at health facilities caused by federal budget cuts.
Healthcare professionals and elected officials expressed concern Monday around Lake County about the impact of the ‘big beautiful bill” on patients who rely on Medicaid for their medical needs.
Hospital scrubs are a common sight in the leafy Norwood section of the Bronx, where employees, patients and visitors flowed in and out of the buildings on Montefiore Medical Center’s main campus on East 210th Street on a recent morning.
Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax bill will ‘devastate’ access to care in rural Pennsylvania, critics say
State officials estimate 310,000 Pennsylvanians will lose Medicaid coverage and anticipate strain at health facilities caused by federal budget cuts.
Officials are warning that millions of Americans could lose their insurance under changes in the law — including 330,000 people in Illinois who could be impacted by changes to Medicaid. However, Republican lawmakers say the changes are aimed at eliminating waste,