Editorials & Other Articles

The loss of the ACA Enhanced Subsidy will price 2.5 million out of carrying insurance in 2026 alone. The numbers grow every year thereafter according to the CBO.

The Medicaid cuts will leave 7.5 million without coverage in the coming years.

This is not just about working poor people losing their insurance. It is about the fact that the cost of the burden of that many uninsured will be shifted to the rest of us.

And the ripple effects will be felt in job losses, emergency room closures as they become unsustainable, and on and on.

And with the Medicaid cuts, you have the additional atrocity of people losing access to long-term care and ultimately closure of long-term care facilities.