Trump's new law strips coverage, jacks up costs, and risks 200,000 deaths
Various estimates have come dropping in for the potential death count resultant from the Big Ugly Bill, starting down around the ridiculously low figure of 50K. How do you count up such a number? Which deaths do you attribute to lack of access to care when hospitals close? Which from peoplee who choose not to go to the doctor because they know they can't afford it? Over what time period are you measuring this death toll?
Suffice it to say, the numbers are likely gross under estimates, but one thing is clear. The death toll whatever it is will fall disproportionately on the poor. The effects however won't stop there, since a huge number of middle class families of health care workers get paid by the medicaid budget.
Whatever it ends up being will take quite a while to play out. Unpleasaantt time.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-medicaid-big-beautiful-bill-americans-uninsured-1235379423/
Trump's Big Bill Will Make Americans Uninsured Again
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Trump’s Big Bill Will Make Americans Uninsured Again
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