Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30k additional deaths: Centers for American Progress
- Republicans proposed $880 billion cuts to Medicaid, citing waste and fraud, to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, according to various GOP leaders.
- According to the Center for American Progress, if enacted, these cuts could result in over 800,000 people in Pennsylvania losing health coverage and the state losing more than $34 billion in Medicaid funding.
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Proposed health care cuts bad for rural areas (opinion)
By Matthew Espenshade President, PA State Grange We live in a country where majority rules — from local governments to the very peak of federal power. Those who get the most votes win. In that same vein, the political party that wins the most seats enjoys the power and privileges that come with being in the governing majority in the legislative branch and the candidate that garners the most votes lands at the very top of the executive branch. Bu…

Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson hold a press conference on the Republican budget resolution at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. The Republican leaders each face a challenge in uniting their divided conferences to pass a massive tax and spending plan supported by President Donald Trump. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of th…
She has 23 medical conditions and Medicaid helps keep her alive. Republicans want to gut it.
More than 3 million Pennsylvania residents benefit from Medicaid, but the US House Republicans’ plan to make massive cuts to the program puts 800,000 of them at risk of losing their coverage. For Carly Morton and hundreds of thousands of other Pennsylvanians on Medicaid, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s proposed $880 billion cut to the healthcare program could be the difference between life and death. Literally. “ I would not…
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