so you throw a lot of words up that don’t actually prove your point. Pretty lame. Where does it say disabled or unable are going to lose coverage? Some of them will, but it will be because they were ineligible for some other reason.Try reading the bill for yourself before blindly cheering for anything Trump says.
- Roughly 15 million people by 2034 would lose health coverage and become uninsured because of the Medicaid cuts, the bill’s failure to extend enhanced premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage, and other harmful ACA marketplace changes, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). This figure could well rise to account for last-minute changes in the House that made the bill harsher.
- CBO estimates project that 7.6 million people would become uninsured due to Medicaid policies passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee (E&C).
- 1.8 million people would become uninsured due to codification of the Trump Administration marketplace rule provisions, which the E&C Committee also passed.
- 2.1 million people would become uninsured because of marketplace policies passed by the Ways and Means Committee.
- An additional 4.2 million people would lose marketplace coverage because the legislation fails to extend the premium tax credit enhancements.
- Estimates of how many of those at risk will lose coverage vary. We estimate that if coverage losses mirror those experienced in Arkansas when it implemented similar requirements, some 7 million people would lose coverage.
- Two-thirds of people aged 19-64 receiving Medicaid in 2023 worked during the year, and many of those who didn’t were taking care of a family member or had an illness or disability.
- This expansive work requirement will harm parents, people with disabilities, and those with other chronic illnesses because past experience shows that exemptions don’t work. Even people who are supposed to be protected — and those who are working — lose coverage when they get caught in bureaucratic red tape.
- One provision would take Medicaid coverage away from people, mostly seniors and those with disabilities who also have Medicare, due to provisions that make it harder to get and stay enrolled in Medicaid.
- Some people would also lose coverage due to new requirements that expansion enrollees re-prove their eligibility every six months (instead of annually). These requirements frequently end up pushing eligible people off Medicaid because they don’t receive or submit the necessary paperwork, or because the state fails to process the paperwork.