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What the data says about Medicaid
Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history.
The tax, spending and policy bill making its way through Congress seeks to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid over the next decade to help offset the measure’s even larger tax cuts. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Medicaid cuts, along with changes to other federal insurance programs, would lead to millions of people losing health coverage should the bill become law.
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