06.04.2025 / Statement

Families USA Statement on New CBO Score: 16 Million More Americans Without Health Insurance Coverage Under House Budget Bill

Wright: “The GOP budget bill is just a big, bad betrayal of the millions of working-class families that sent them to Washington to lower costs.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, today released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate that 16 million more Americans will not have health insurance coverage if the current reconciliation bill becomes law. This new coverage loss number is based on the CBO’s updated score that the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will result in 10.9 million people being kicked off of their health insurance plans, along with existing estimates that more than 5 million Americans will lose their health coverage when current premium tax credits expire at the end of this year and other changes are implemented. The CBO score also details how the reconciliation bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over ten years despite its intended purpose to reduce the deficit.

“Today’s CBO score confirms what we’ve known all along: the GOP budget bill is just a big, bad betrayal of the millions of working-class families that sent them to Washington to lower costs. Instead of taking action to make health care more affordable, President Trump and Republicans are seeking to pass huge tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations, paid for by dropping 16 million off of health coverage and making other cuts to the health system that lead to reduced benefits, services, and care for Americans who need it. No amount of bald-faced lying can refute what the CBO confirmed: that millions of eligible Americans will lose coverage under this budget bill. If anything, these are conservative estimates of the millions of Americans who will see their benefits ripped away and the many more who will feel the impact of health care costs skyrocket, the cuts to the health system we all rely on, and the rippling effect to our economy and public health.

“The millions more Americans who will be uninsured will live sicker, die younger, and be one emergency away from financial ruin. These cuts are literally life and death for low-income working families, people with disabilities, pregnant women and their babies, children, veterans, and people who rely on rural hospitals across the country — all of whom will pay the price of this disastrous bill for generations, while the billionaires reap the benefits.”

“If this bill was about protecting the Medicaid program for priority populations, they would at least reinvest the money saved from kicking people off coverage into improving it for others, but this CBO score confirms that it is a massive cut to Medicaid — the biggest in history — to partially fund further tax cuts for the richest among us. These real impacts to coverage and care are the reason so many in the health system — plans, providers, and patients — are urging the Senate to reject this big, bad betrayal of a budget bill. An actual bill to address waste, fraud, and abuse would look dramatically different and include commonsense reforms to rein in corporate abuses in Medicare Advantage, hospital, and drug pricing rather than cut the coverage of 16 million Americans. The Senate should reject this proposal that would increase the uninsured rate by over 50%, the largest rollback of health care coverage in American history.”

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