Medicaid enrollment drop and cost warning signs flash for WV from GOP budget law

Medicaid enrollment drop and cost warning signs flash for WV from GOP budget law

West Virginia lawmakers have fresh evidence that historically deep Medicaid cuts approved by Congress, including West Virginia’s four-member congressional delegation, via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted in July 2025 will be costly in West Virginia. That evidence is in line with a history of similar Medicaid cuts leading to less health insurance coverage for disadvantaged people in other states, without the workforce additions that some pr…