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In a new op-ed, the President and CEO of a major nonpartisan New York nonprofit took Mike Lawler and his GOP colleagues to task over their deciding votes for Donald Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill – which he calls “a poison pill for New York.”
New Yorkers make up nearly 10% of the 16 million Americans who will be left without health care due to the steep Medicaid cuts in the bill and failing to extend the ACA tax credits. In addition, New York hospitals are set to lose $3 billion — putting 11 rural hospitals across the state at risk of closing — and New Yorkers will see their health insurance costs skyrocket by 38%.
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City & State NY: GOP’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will savage NY’s health care system, budget and economy
- It’s quite astonishing to think that we have reached a point in this extremely charged and partisan political environment where members of Congress would decline to protect their own constituents in unashamed deference to party politics.
- Yet, that’s exactly where we are, and that’s exactly what happened in New York.
- On May 22, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to gut Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, leaving millions without health insurance and ravaging state budgets across the country.
- Any of the seven New York Republican members of Congress had the power to stop this bill, which passed by a one-vote margin, but none did.
- They all voted in favor of egregious cuts to public health coverage for seniors, people with disabilities and low-income children and families in their congressional districts.
- Make no mistake, the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” that was voted out of the House and is now with the U.S. Senate is a poison pill for New York.
- New Yorkers would make up more than 10% (1.5 million) of the 16 million Americans at risk of becoming uninsured due to federal threats to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
- The University of Pennsylvania estimates these cuts will lead to over 42,000 excess deaths annually.
- The cuts in the bill will devastate New York’s health care system, budget, and economy. If the bill is passed as-is, 1.5 million New Yorkers will become uninsured, a $13.5 billion hole will be left in the state budget, hospital funding will be cut by $3 billion and marketplace premiums will rise by 38%, or $2,700 a year for a couple.
- Congress has a bullseye on New York. In addition to eviscerating the state’s health care coverage landscape as we know it, the reconciliation bill would leave three million New Yorkers at risk of losing SNAP benefits.
- At this point, it’s unclear when the bill will return to the House. When it does, New York’s seven Republican members of Congress will have a second chance to stand up for New York and protect the state and their constituents from these devastating cuts.
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