07/02/2025

What the Tax Bill Means for Your Healthcare

It may affect how people sign up for Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces

If you're among the 78 million people on Medicaid or the 24 million with a health plan from the insurance marketplaces, changes to how you qualify for and enroll in coverage — and what medical providers are available to you — could be on the way.

Republicans are looking to squeeze savings from these two major programs that provide many lower-income and disabled Americans with health coverage, as they hustle to pass a huge, tax-cut-extending legislative package President Donald Trump has demanded before July 4. The bill narrowly passed the Senate on Tuesday and is now headed back to the House — which approved a different version of the bill in May — for final passage.

To help pay for the measure, Republicans have proposed changes estimated to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, with the bulk of the cuts coming from Medicaid. Those provisions will lead to at least 17 million people losing their health insurance over the next decade, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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