Nearly 20 million Americans could lose their health insurance should the revised 940-page Senate version of the President Donald Trump-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act move forward, according to June 30 data from the Joint Economic Committee-Minority.
On June 30, the Republican-led Senate kicked off a vote-a-rama after a 51-49 procedural vote on June 28 regarding the bill, which includes revisions to Medicaid, Medicare and healthcare-related tax provisions.
The news comes after a June 27 nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis estimated 17 million Americans would lose coverage due to Affordable Care Act and Medicaid cuts in the revised bill.
“(Republican) Senator Rick Scott (of Florida) has put forward an amendment that appears to end Medicaid expansion in 9 states that have automatic ‘trigger laws’ to immediately end the program if the federal matching percentage is reduced,” a JEC news release said. “Based on CBO’s analysis and other research, the Joint Economic Committee-Minority has preliminarily found that due to these ‘trigger laws,’ [Mr. Scott’s] amendment would mean that millions more people lose their coverage in those 9 states.”
The JEC release said Mr. Scott’s bill amendment could force an end to Medicaid expansion in more states, resulting in 29 million Americans losing coverage. California, New York and Florida could see the most people lose their insurance.
Read a breakdown by state here.
