(AURN News) — An estimated 8 million Americans have lost Medicaid, CHIP or Affordable Care Act coverage, according to a new state-by-state analysis from the health care advocacy group Protect Our Care.
The organization links the losses to higher insurance premiums and health care provisions in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
It also identifies more than 1,100 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other providers that have closed, announced cuts or are considered at risk.
Protect Our Care produced those estimates, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects a similar trend. CBO estimates the number of uninsured Americans will rise from 30 million this year to 37 million by 2036, largely because of provisions in the 2025 reconciliation law affecting Medicaid, CHIP and Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
The organization warns that as more people lose insurance, families will pay more while hospitals absorb more uncompensated care.
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