Advocates fear Senate’s version of Trump’s budget bill could leave millions without healthcare and boost corporations
Advocates are urging Senate Republicans to reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations.
The proposal would make historic cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled people that covers 71 million Americans, and is the Senate version of the “big beautiful bill” act, which contains most of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
“With the text released earlier this week, somehow the Senate made the House’s ‘big, bad budget bill’ worse in many ways,” said Anthony Wright, the executive director of Families USA, a consumer healthcare advocacy group, in a press call.
Well, if they couldn’t hear the warnings, maybe they need experience to be their teacher.
I just wish there was some way to limit the abject suffering that’s on the way to those most responsible. But unfortunately millions of completely innocent people will be caught in the crossfire…
And the worst of it will likely be that the most responsible won’t experience any negative side-effects for a long time, if ever.