Senate GOP floats steeper Medicaid cuts
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Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is scheduled to speak to Republican senators at lunch Tuesday on the need to reform Medicaid, according to a GOP source familiar with the schedule.
The inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is not at all popular. For Republicans in competitive districts, that matters.
Americans across the political spectrum like Medicaid and think it should get more funding, not less, according to a new poll from health research organization KFF.
The Senate version of the 2026 budget mega bill is expected to be more aggressive on provider taxes than the House version.
Proposed changes have reportedly angered some House Representatives, and differing views on the legislation could make passing Trump's bill difficult.
The health policy nonprofit KFF estimated between 120,000 and 190,000 people in Colorado could lose their insurance, mostly through falling off the Medicaid rolls, over the next 10 years.
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