Many of the 17 million projected to lose Medicaid coverage will turn to struggling free health clinics. They need more financial support.

When President Donald Trump signed his tax bill into law, he acknowledged that it included deep spending cuts but suggested people “won’t even notice it.”

Local and nationwide hospital margins have seen more stability in recent months, crawling out of a period of shaky financials, low revenues and steeply rising prices. But the relative calm may not last long given looming changes to Medicaid, tariffs and other forces, according to Chicago-based Strata Decision Technologies.

The claim that 100,000 people will die from Trump’s Medicaid cuts isn’t a fact—it’s a distortion of nuanced research turned into partisan fearmongering.

Elevance’s stock led the S&P 500’s losers after its CEO said a lowered profit outlook assumes Medicaid cost pressures won’t subside in the near term

Fox News Digital asked lawmakers on Capitol Hill if Americans should pick up the tab for able-bodied Medicaid recipients under 65 or unemployed. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)

In 2024, Trump carried the 61 rural and suburban counties by 23 percentage points. Fifteen percent of residents in those counties relied on SNAP benefits and 22% are on Medicaid, Yost noted.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid reforms are too small for what needs to be done, argues Ross Marchand.