Everyone should worry about Trump’s latest attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act. That’s the intent. Do you really want to give up your health insurance? Go back to the dark days without coverage? No! Don’t buy the GOP lies, that’s the goal of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Call your Congressional representatives and protest, now!
As Congress weighs spending cuts and other changes to Medicaid, more than half (54%) of the public say they are worried significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending would negatively affect their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. This includes about three in 10 (29%) who say they are “very worried” about such an outcome.
Upcoming Event: How the Trump Administration and Congress Are Reshaping the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces: Views from the States
Join us on Wednesday, June 11 at Noon ET for a virtual event focused on how the ACA’s health insurance Marketplaces may be affected by regulations and proposed changes in the House reconciliation bill. Expert panelists include: Larry Levitt, KFF’s Executive Vice President for Health Policy; Cynthia Cox, KFF Vice President and Director of the Program on the ACA, and leaders from two state-based Marketplaces, who will discuss how these changes could affect enrollment and the number of people uninsured.
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Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Continues Assault on Obamacare
The domestic policy legislation the House advanced in May includes the most substantial rollback of the Affordable Care Act since President Donald Trump and his Republican allies tried to pass legislation in 2017 that would have largely repealed President Barack Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment.
Make American Health Care Affordable Again
In this JAMA Health Forum column, Larry Levitt, KFF’s Executive Vice President for Health Policy, highlights how the Make America Healthy Again agenda aimed at chronic disease does little to address the affordability of health care and that efforts to lower federal spending on health care may worsen the problem, raising out-of-pocket costs for many people with Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage.
Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest estimate shows that the One Big Beautiful Bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion. This new KFF analysis allocates these federal spending reductions and enrollment losses across the states. Learn more →
Another KFF analysis of CBO’s new estimates shows that cuts and other changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act under the reconciliation bill would increase the uninsured rate by 10.9 million over 10 years. Learn more →
Question of the Week
Last week, 70% correctly answered that nationally, Medicaid covers 20% of adult women of reproductive age (18 to 49 years old).