Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
The next bill of budget reconciliation of the Republican Party – “One Big Beautiful Bill” of the President of AKA, Donald Trump, will come with a deadly cost. A study today reveals that the Medicaid cups proposed in the bill could trigger a barrel of powder of disturbances of health care, potentially causing thousands of additional avoidable deaths each year.
Harvard researchers and elsewhere carried out the study, analyzing the health impacts of six Medicaid cups proposed to the GOP, some of which are in the current bill. They estimated that the bill as a whole will lead to millions of people to lose their primary care doctor, while killing more than 16,000 more Americans per year. Far from ensuring the prosperity of all Americans, the provisions of the bill will further enrich the rich to the detriment of the poor and the vulnerable, provide researchers.
The One Big Beautiful Bill law is intended to extend the 2017 tax reductions adopted during Trump’s first term as well as to promulgate many other administration priorities (the nickname came from Trump wanting accomplish All this in a single legislation, rather than in several bills as originally provided for). To compensate for the continuous loss of tax revenue and cover new expenses created by the bill, in particular More defense expenses—The republicans have promised discounts of several programs funded by the government, in particular Medicaid.
The researchers examined the six largest discounts of Medicaid proposed by the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States (led by the GOP) earlier this year, each estimated at least $ 100 billion in Medicaid spending over a period of ten years. They also analyzed the version of the bill put forward by the Chamber’s Budget Committee in May, which included three proposals: the work requirements for unchanged adults, the delay in regulations of the Biden era which would facilitate the admissibility to Medicaid to carry out and maintain, and to freeze MEDICAID supplier taxes (used by states to finance Medicaid). They also analyzed the smaller cuts proposed in the current bill, such as increasing costs sharing for certain registrants.
The Congressional Budget Office previously estimated that the bill will launch around 10 million Americans from Medicaid by 2034 and will result in 7.6 million insurance. Based on previous research showing how the loss of coverage can affect the results of health care, the researchers then estimated the results of Medicaid reductions in the American health bill.
In the most likely scenario, they calculated that 1.9 million Americans would lose their primary care doctor; 1.3 million people would avoid taking the necessary medications; 1.2 million would be in medical debt; And nearly 400,000 women would jump their mammograms. Each year, these cuts would also contribute to 16,642 avoidable deaths, they found (estimates varied from at least 8,241 deaths to up to 24,604 per year).
“Medicaid discounts now under study at Congress would have health care of millions of Americans and would lead to thousands of medically preventable deaths, all to cover the cost of tax reductions which mainly benefit from ease,” a main author of the Harvard Medical School, Gizmodo, told Gizmodo.
The team’s conclusions were published Monday in the annals of internal medicine.
Researchers note that even these figures could undergo the evil of the major bill. They did not analyze other less direct consequences of the Medicaid cuts, for example, such as states withdrawing money from other programs to cover the financing deficits caused by the bill. A separate estimate Released earlier this month by researchers from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania noted that the bill could actually lead to more than 50,000 deaths per year. It is also possible that the bill can always undergo revisions before it reaches Trump’s office to be signed.
But anyway, it is clear that the current Trump administration plan to eliminate the health care of millions of people will overthrow a lot of blood. That these deaths will come to the service of transfer more wealth For the richest Americans while increasing the federal debt, it is enough to insult more serious injuries.
“If the congress adopts this law, he very clearly says that the health and life of the poor less than the banking balances of the rich,” said Gaffney.
