{"id":6443,"date":"2025-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:00:00","slug":"qa-what-does-the-budget-bill-mean-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: What Does the Budget Bill Mean for Your Health?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: Congress is considering roughly $800 billion in Medicaid cuts. You could feel the effects even if you\u2019re not on the government program for people with low incomes and disabilities. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explained how on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub,\u201d June 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Health programs including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/policy-watch\/how-will-the-2025-budget-reconciliation-affect-the-aca-medicaid-and-the-uninsured-rate\/\">Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\">food assistance<\/a> are facing cuts in the budget reconciliation bill making its way through Congress. If passed as written, the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2025-06\/Wyden-Pallone-Neal_Letter_6-4-25.pdf\">dramatically reduce<\/a> health care access for millions of Americans. And even those who don\u2019t rely on these programs could see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/issue-brief\/what-are-the-implications-of-the-2025-budget-reconciliation-bill-for-hospitals\/\">local hospitals close<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner appeared on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub\u201d on June 18 to answer listeners\u2019 questions and break down how the bill could reshape U.S. health care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/libby-montana-superfund-asbestos-vermiculite-bnsf-lawsuit-federal-grant-doj-card\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: Congress is considering roughly $800 billion in Medicaid cuts. You could feel the effects even if you\u2019re not on the government program for people with low incomes and disabilities. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explained how on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub,\u201d June 18.\u00a0 Health programs including Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}