California Showdown Over Medicaid as GOP Approves Massive Cuts

Medicaid cuts could cost American healthcare billions

According to a study by Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the House-approved bill dramatically cutting Medicaid funding now being debated by the Senate would have a cataclysmic impact on American healthcare. Analysis concludes that hospitals would lose $321 billion in spending from the reconciliation process, physicians would face an $81 billion cut, and spending on prescription drugs would decline by $191 billion from 2025 to …

California Showdown Over Medicaid as GOP Approves Massive Cuts

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‘Look my child in the eye’: Parent confronts GOP over Medicaid cuts

Elena Hung, co-founder of Little Lobbyists, returned to Capitol Hill eight years after her first visit with the same mission: to fight Medicaid cuts that would directly harm medically complex children like her daughter, Xiomara. She joins MSNBC’s Catherine Rampell to discuss lawmakers’ “truths and untruths” about the Republican budget bill and its impact: “No cuts to Medicaid are acceptable.”

‘If They Cut Too Much, People Will Die’: Health Coalition Pushes GOP on Medicaid Funding - California Healthline

As House Republicans mull a massive $880 billion cut from federal programs likely including Medicaid, constituents, disability advocates, and health care providers are joining forces to lobby GOP members in California — including those who represent rural, deeply conservative pockets that stand to lose the most.