Medicaid cuts could result in more than 16,000 preventable deaths annually

Key health care provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, especially the proposed Medicaid cuts and Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms, would lead to 16,642 preventable deaths every year if implemented, according to a new analysis published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine. 

The proposed changes would also result in 7.6 million people losing insurance coverage, according to the analysis, which relied on data from a recent Congressional Budget Office analysis as well as data from at least four peer-reviewed studies of previous Medicaid expansions and cutbacks.

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