Warren Sounds the Alarm: Republican Bill Would Kick Over 326,000 Massachusetts Residents Off Health Care

JEC Analysis
Washington, D.C. —U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released new data from the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) estimating that Republicans’ bill would kick 326,262 people in Massachusetts off of their health insurance — up from 305,611 under the House version of the bill earlier this month.
A recentanalysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)also found that the proposed Senate bill would increase the number of Americans who will lose their health insurance to 17 million people.
“Senate Republicans had the opportunity to fight back against the House’s disgusting excuse of a bill. Instead, they’re ripping health care away from even more people and raising costs for families to fund giant tax handouts for billionaires and giant corporations,”said Senator Warren. “This ugly bill is a slap in the face for Massachusetts families, and I’m taking all my fight to the Senate floor to stop it.”
A Republican amendment proposes to lower the federal funding that states receive to cover certain Medicaid enrollees, likely immediately ending the program in 9 states with “trigger laws” activated if the federal matching percentage is reduced. If adopted, the amendment would raise the number of people kicked off of health insurance to20 million.
JEC estimates that if all states end their Medicaid expansion programs due to the Republican amendment, combined with the devastating Medicaid cuts in the bill,29 million peopleacross the country could lose their health insurance.
Senator Warren has led the fight against these unprecedented cuts to Americans’ health care,pressing nomineesto justify the cuts, andsharing storiesof constituents set to be impacted by the cuts. The Senate is voting on its version of the budget bill today.
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