Disability (and other) News Roundup June 1, 2025
Today I have several articles about the so called "Big Beautiful Bill" discussing different topics related to it, plus one other article. Disability
Explainer: The House Passed a Budget Reconciliation Bill – What’s In the Bill and What Would It Mean For Disabled Americans? written by Jess Davidson on May 25, 2025 at AAPD
"On May 22nd, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill by just one vote. The bill contains many provisions that will be catastrophic for people with disabilities, including at least $715 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next ten years, and at least 13.7 million people losing their health coverage. "
The Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill’s Health Care Cuts Would Drive Up Uncompensated Care and Threaten Vulnerable Hospitals written by Andrés Argüello and Andrea Ducas on May 23, 2025 at the Center for American Progress
"On May 22, House Republicans passed a sweeping reconciliation bill that would enact historic cuts to the Medicaid program and erect new barriers for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace enrollees. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that this bill, alongside congressional Republicans’ refusal to extend enhanced ACA premium tax credits, would cause nearly 14 million Americans to lose health insurance."
Donald Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Gut American Science written by Jackie Flynn Mogensen on May 31, 2025 at Mother Jones
"On Friday, the Trump administration released a detailed look at its proposed 2026 budget, including major cuts to federal science agencies that oversee research on everything from cancer to the cosmos."
House passes tax bill that would ban Medicaid from covering transition-related care written by Jo Yurcaba on May 22, 2025 at NBC News.
"The tax bill the House passed Thursday would bar Medicaid coverage of all transgender care and prohibit plans offered under the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges from covering such care as an essential health benefit, potentially jeopardizing access to care for hundreds of thousands of trans adults and an unknown number of minors."
RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies written by Joseph Gedeon on May 29, 2025 in The Guardian
"The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized."