Potential Medicaid Cuts Could Lead to More than 16,500 Medically-Preventable Deaths Each Year: Study

Pa. politicians fight to save Medicaid as Trump administration proposes funding cuts

Inside the East Liberty Family Health Care Center, patients receive a wide range of health care services, from general checkups to dentistry.

Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Result in Thousands of Preventable Deaths, Study Finds

(MedPage Today) -- The Medicaid cuts currently being considered by Congress would result in thousands of preventable deaths annually, researchers estimated. If the current House bill were enacted, an estimated 16,642 preventable deaths (range...

Hospital ERs will be overwhelmed if $800 billion Medicaid cut passes, doctors warn

SUPERIOR TWP., MI — What could happen to low-income mothers, seniors, people with disabilities and many others who rely on Medicaid is a major concern among health care professionals at Trinity Health Ann Arbor hospital. Children going to their primary care doctors for checks could drop. Mothers might not be able to obtain breast pumps and people without health care coverage would overwhelm emergency departments, a group of OB-GYNs, community he…

Study: Medicaid cuts would take a toll

Study: Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of preventable deaths annually

Congress passing the controversial One Big Beautiful Bill Act could leave millions without insurance and lead to at least 16,000 annual preventable deaths, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.In May, the House of Representatives Budget Committee advanced a bill incorporating several spending reductions “to offset revenue losses from proposed tax cuts,” Adam

Rick Wilson: Unnecessary deaths easily preventable (Opinion)

Eight years ago, when the Affordable Care Act was up for repeal, then-Gov. Jim Justice and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., helped walk the nation back from the brink.