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That’s how many people the Congressional Budget Office projects will lose their health insurance if Republicans in the Senate allow Trump to enact his callous budget bill to give billionaires a hefty tax cut.
With changes to the Affordable Care Act, that number could rise to 16 million over the next decade.
It’s not just cruel, it’s an act of deliberate legislative malice, with dire consequences.
New analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University found that, sadly, if enacted, Trump’s bill to cut health care would lead to over 51,000 deaths every single year.
They write that this includes:
1) 11,300 deaths from the loss of Medicaid or Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage due to 7.7 million people losing coverage
2) 18,200 deaths due to the loss of Medicaid coverage among 1.38 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries, causing loss of access to low-income prescription drug subsidies
3) 13,000 deaths among Medicaid enrollees in nursing homes due to the rollback of CMS’ 2024 nursing home minimum staffing rule.
“In the wealthiest country in the world, we should be guaranteeing health care to all as a human right, not taking health care away from millions of seniors and working families to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. As the Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, I will be doing everything that I can to see that this disastrous bill is defeated,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said in a statement highlighting those findings.
Republicans are doing this at the behest of their ultra-wealthy friends.
“The top 1 percent of earners — making more than $920,000 — would receive an average tax cut of close to $70,000 in the first year after enactment,” The Washington Post reported last week. So, the rich get richer, and the poor and working class are left with crumbs.
Or, as Senator Joni Ersnt (D-IA) so eloquently put it, “We are all going to die.”
While her apparent gaffe drew well-deserved mockery, it was a glimpse into the collective psyche of the GOP: They are simultaneously aware of the bill’s ramifications and do not care. Ernst even doubled-down on her unflinching heartlessness with a video the following day, mocking people who were understandably bothered by her comments with a glib selfie video taken in a graveyard.
Now, as more and more Americans are waking up to the bill’s dangers, Trump’s White House is in damage control, issuing desperate but not-very-reassuring press releases like this one:
Except, we know people will suffer as a result.
Now, having been confronted with the grim reality of their party’s own legislation, some Republicans are getting cold feet. But Trump can’t afford to lose more than three senators, if all Senate Democrats vote against it.
Right now, 10 Republicans in the Senate have publicly expressed concerns over the bill, ranging from its massive costs—the CBO projects a $2.4 trillion increase to the deficit—to, in a handful of cases, cuts to Medicaid and rural hospital services.
But what can you do? How can you stop Trump? Taking action is easy!
Join the over 3,000 volunteers who have made more than 330,000 calls to fellow MoveOn members, connecting them to their representatives’ office to demand they vote against slashing our health care.
Together, we can defend our friends, relatives, and neighbors and block this bill!