| After Mike Turner cast the deciding vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history, new reporting shows that over 350,000 hardworking Ohioans are at risk of losing their health care coverage.
To add to the pain, this comes in addition to 113,000 Ohioans who have already lost coverage after Turner refused to extend the ACA tax credits.
 Over 31,000 hardworking Ohioans in Turner’s own district are projected to lose their health care, as families are already shouldering the burden of Republicans’ chaotic, cost-spiking agenda.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“When will Mike Turner’s cruelty end? From gutting health care to raising health care costs to spiking prices across the board, Turner has made it clear that he has no problem leaving Ohio families behind.”
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Ohio Capital Journal: As many as 356,000 Ohioans will lose health coverage under Trump spending law, new reports says
- Medicaid work requirements that are part of the Trump/Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act could cause 356,000 people in Ohio to lose their health care coverage, according to a new report, on top of about 113,000 who already have lost coverage after tax credits were allowed to expire.
- The work requirements that are part of the Republican spending law claim to break the cycle of dependency. But in Ohio they will take health coverage away from huge numbers who are already employed, in school, or are caregivers, according to the analysis that was published last week.
- In fact, it could take coverage away from a full half — or 356,000 — of those who get coverage under a 2014 expansion of Medicaid eligibility as part of the Affordable Care Act, said the report by Urban Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- The losses are in addition to at least 113,000 Ohioans who have already lost health coverage this year after Republicans allowed tax credits in Affordable Care Act marketplaces to expire. That number is sure to grow, and nearly half of those losing coverage work for or own small businesses.
- The projected losses in Medicaid coverage stem from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Republicans passed last summer. It cut taxes on the richest 1% of Americans by $1 trillion over 10 years while cutting Medicaid by almost as much.
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