Overview

• The House-passed budget blueprint seeks about $880 billion in Medicaid savings over 10 years through work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks for able-bodied adults
• The Congressional Budget Office projects roughly 8.6 million people would lose health coverage under the bill’s stricter rules
• Senators Josh Hawley, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have publicly drawn red lines on deep Medicaid cuts and pressed for protections for their states’ vulnerable populations
• The legislation also reduces federal funding to states offering health benefits to undocumented immigrants and prohibits Medicaid coverage of gender transition services
• Democrats vow to campaign against what they call a “tax scam” that cuts healthcare, while Republicans defend the measure as necessary to curb waste, fraud and abuse