Medicaid cuts under “Big Beautiful Bill” could cost Oklahomans healthcare coverage

Quad-Cities health care, disability leaders concerned as Medicaid faces cuts

A plan proposing $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid passed the House Thursday morning as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" on tax breaks and other budget changes.

To the editor: Bill will cost 8.6M their Medicaid

Congress’ planned cuts to Medicaid and their gutting of the Affordable Care Act as part their “Big, Beautiful” budget will kick 8.6 million Americans off coverage. They are doing this to extend the Trump tax cuts which, according to economists, will again mainly benefit the rich and harm the working class and poor.

Medicaid cuts under “Big Beautiful Bill” could cost Oklahomans healthcare coverage

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahomans could see quite the shake up to their Medicaid coverage as the outwardly labeled “Big Beautiful Bill” works through Congress. It passed the House by a narrow vote and experts estimate millions of Americans might lose their healthcare, including well over 100,000 Oklahomans. “The House has passed generational truly nation shaping legislation,” House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said after the bills pas…

The GOP War on Medicaid: 14 Million Could Lose Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Rich

House Republicans have successfully pushed forward President Trump’s budget proposals to slash Medicaid and food stamps, putting millions of low-income Americans at risk. Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, a healthcare consumer advocacy organization, says the $715 billion reduction is “literally the biggest cut to the Medicaid program in history.”

Will Senate Republicans Throw A Monkey Wrench Into Trump's Big Ugly Bill?

Some Republicans want to expand the Medicaid reforms to further reduce the program’s costs over the next decade. Some senators want to further restrict the availability to Medicaid coverage to able-bodied adults. “Medicaid ought to go back & do what it was set up to do. It was set up to take care of poor children & the chronically ill, and that’s what the focus should be,” Rick Scott said, noting that Florida didn’t expand Medicaid coverage unde…