As the “big, beautiful bill” teeters towards passage in the Senate, every major health system in Louisiana sent a letter Saturday to the state’s entire congressional delegation, including Speaker Mike Johnson ®, warning that planned cuts to Medicaid would be “historic in their devastation.”
The letter said that the Senate’s version of the bill would cut more than $4 billion in Medicaid funding, with a loss of more than 16,000 jobs. Even the House’s version of cuts, the letter stated, would be a more palatable solution.
However, the “economic consequences pale in comparison to the harm that will be caused to residents across the state, regardless of insurance status, who will no longer be able to get the care that they need,” the letter reads.
“Steep cuts will force consolidation of services, staffing reductions and closures, reducing healthcare access to everyone in our communities. Our rural communities will especially feel the impact as many of these hospitals are already in difficult financial situations and are likely to experience a significant reduction of services.”
Just a reminder that Louisiana is the 2nd most dependent state on Medicaid.
Every major hospital system is warning the House Speaker this will cause catastrophic harm to people in his own state.
Meanwhile, even the Cato Institute has pointed out Republicans are literally just burning absurd amounts of money on Deportations.
Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Really curious to hear how Americans are being helped by anything the Republican party is doing right now?
Racist Americans are getting their appetite whet seeing brown people getting hurt, and are on the edge of their seat waiting to see Black people get hurt.