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What Happens When Coverage Is Cut? Looking Backward and Forward From the One Big Beautiful Bill

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By Adam Gaffney, Danny McCormick, David Himmelstein
| Milbank Quarterly in Conversation
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Policy Points: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) may impose the largest coverage losses in US history, causing the number uninsured to rise by 55% in the coming decade. We examined four prior coverage contractions—Reagan-era Medicaid cuts, the 2005 TennCare disenrollment, 2019 Arkansas work requirements, and the Medicaid Unwinding—to shed light on the OBBBA’s impacts.
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Think Healthcare Costs Are Unaffordable? They’re Worse

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By David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
| Connellsville Daily Courier Verified
“When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think,” Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmentalist, quipped 50 years ago. Today, it’s applicable to policy wonks’ depictions of healthcare affordability. According to surveys, only a small fraction of Americans — about one in 10 — incur crushing healthcare bills. Yet, unaffordability is Americans’ top healthcare concern. New research we published in December helps explain that disconnect.
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Think Healthcare Costs Are Unaffordable? They’re Worse – DC Journal - InsideSources

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By David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Adam Gaffney
| DC Journal
“When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think,” Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmentalist, quipped 50 years ago. Today, it’s applicable to policy wonks’ depictions of healthcare affordability. According to surveys, only a small fraction of Americans — about one in 10 — incur crushing healthcare bills. Yet, unaffordability is Americans’ top healthcare concern. New research we published in December helps explain that disconnect.
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