The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" proposes extensive federal budget cuts, significantly impacting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This threatens healthcare for nearly half of U.S. children, as 49% are covered by these programs. The bill also includes substantial tax reductions which can lead to decreased federal revenue, necessitating spending cuts. Over the last two decades, many community hospitals have reduced pediatric care availability, further exacerbating the potential healthcare crisis for children requiring medical attention. The reliance on pediatric hospitals for care may not suffice given the scale of the issue.
Your child's healthcare will likely be impacted by the Big Beautiful Bill. Even if you are gainfully employed and you have private insurance. The Big Beautiful Bill has significant tax cuts. And if you decrease the money coming into the government, you also have to decrease the spending, and one of those cuts is coming at the expense of Medicaid.
About 49% of kids in the United States are either covered by Medicaid or CHIP; 41% of [births] in the United States are covered by Medicaid. Community hospitals used to have pediatric beds and pediatric departments. But it turns out kids are not that profitable, and putting an adult in that bed instead of a pediatric patient makes more money.
A lot of places have shut down their pediatric beds - decreasing the total number of beds in our country for pediatric patients - and most of these beds are now available in pediatric hospitals. These pediatric hospitals see pediatric patients.
The Big Beautiful Bill could endanger access to health care, especially for children, due to substantial federal spending cuts, particularly to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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