The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
"Republicans need to open their eyes: Our voters support social insurance programs," writes Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri. "If Republicans want to be a working-class party -- if we want to be a majority party -- we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid."
-- New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion.nytimes.com) May 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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"same group that told barry and us that obamcare would save us 2500 a year."
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Saving $2,000 a year just wasn't good enough for you!
Name the much-criticized federal program that has saved the U.S. $2.3 trillion. Hint: it starts with Affordable
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"Put another way, health care spending in 2017 was $2,000 less per person than it was projected to be. And for the 176 million Americans who have private employer-sponsored insurance, their lower premiums averaged just under $1,000 per person."
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