Experts from SSN’s Medicaid Working Group were featured in two SSN Experts Available on major Medicaid proposals—first in response to the “Big, Beautiful Bill” (May 22nd, 2025), and later on Senate Finance Committee updates in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (June 17th, 2025).
Medicaid Working Group Publications
Opinion | Republican budget has a few big winners, many losers
By Chris Howard
Howard explains how the House Republican budget delivers massive tax cuts for the wealthy while slashing key supports like Medicaid, the Child Tax Credit, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Published in The Virginian-Pilot on June 19th, 2025
Opinion | Medicaid Cuts Are Undemocratic and Not What the American People Want
By Jamila Michener and Sarah E. Gollust
The authors argue that proposed Medicaid cuts are fundamentally undemocratic, as broad bipartisan majorities of Americans view the program as effective and oppose reducing its funding.
Published in the Milibank Memorial Fund on June 16th, 2025
Opinion | Wisconsin voters don’t want to lose health coverage. Yet 96,000 will under Trump
By Philip Rocco
Rocco warns that the “Big Beautiful Bill’s” Medicaid and tax credit cuts will cost Wisconsinites health coverage, despite public demand for affordable healthcare.
Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 15th, 2025
Opinion | Will States' Rights Go the Way of Medicaid Funding?
Yaver writes that the "One Big Beautiful Bill" forces states to cut Medicaid, abandoning federalism and harming millions.
Published in Medpage Today on June 14th, 2025
Opinion | House tax-and-spending bill and other Trump administration changes could make millions of people lose their health insurance coverage
By Simon Haeder
Haeder warns that Trump-backed policy changes could strip millions of Medicaid coverage by adding red tape and work requirements.
Published in The Conversation on June 13th, 2025
Opinion | Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
Yaver writes that Medicaid cuts could be damaging to those in red states, who have statistically high rates of depression, PTSD, and drug abuse.
Published in STAT News on June 12th, 2025
Opinion | Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most
By Miranda Yaver & Michael Shepherd
Shepherd and Yaver argue that Trump’s proposed Medicaid cuts in the "big, beautiful bill" would disproportionately harm rural Republican communities, threatening health coverage and hospitals.
Published in The Hill on June 2nd, 2025
Opinion | Don’t Be Fooled; Medicaid Cuts Will Be Painful
By Chris Howard
Howard warns that proposed Republican Medicaid cuts, disguised as efforts to reduce fraud, will instead leave hundreds of thousands of Virginians without health care and strain the state’s hospitals.
Published in Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 30th, 2025
Opinion | House bill would gut Medicaid in Missouri — even for those who work
Haselswerdt writes that the House’s proposed Medicaid work requirements would devastate Missouri’s already overburdened system, stripping health coverage from thousands, including eligible beneficiaries.
Published in Columbia Missourian on May 27th, 2025
Opinion | The Budget Bill’s Hidden Health Crisis
Gusmano argues the House budget bill hides major health care cuts behind talk of saving money, slashing Medicaid and ACA funding.
Published in The Hastings Center for Bioethics on May 23rd, 2025
Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
By Pamela Herd & Donald Moynihan
Herd and Moynihan explain how Republicans’ Medicaid proposal in their "big, beautiful bill" would strip coverage from millions of eligible beneficiaries by burying people in administrative red tape.
Published in The New York Times on May 22nd, 2025
Opinion | GOP lawmakers commit to big spending cuts, putting Medicaid under a spotlight – but trimming the low-income health insurance program would be hard
By Paul Shafer & Nicole Huberfeld
Shafer and Huberfeld write that while House Republicans are pushing for steep Medicaid cuts, implementing them could lead to millions losing coverage.
Published in The Conversation on March 3rd, 2025
Contact Info
To learn more about the working group or to get involved, please contact Mandana Mohsenzadegan at [email protected].