Rep. Raskin on Passing of Big, Beautiful Bill: ‘It’s a Nightmare, 17 Million People Are Going to Lose Their Health Insurance’

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RASKIN: “It’s a nightmare. 17 million people are going to lose their health insurance, overwhelmingly within the Medicaid program, but some also from the Affordable Care Act. And everybody’s co-pays, deductibles and premiums are going to be soaring after this. It’s been predicted that there will be hundreds of closures of hospitals, mostly in rural areas. There will be hundreds of nursing homes that are forced to close too because they are so dependent on Medicaid. Basically, the Republican Party just pulled the plug on a whole public health ecosystem organized around Medicaid and people who depend on it, and that’s millions and millions of people.”