06.16.2025 / Statement

Families USA Statement on Senate Republicans Continuing their Crusade Against Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, Devastating Health Care for Millions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, released the following statement after the Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo today released their reconciliation bill text, which further decimates funding for Medicaid and continues to undermine private Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage and doubles-down on the House budget bill’s framework that would rip health care away from 16 million people and devastate the health care system for all Americans.

“Somehow, the Senate made the House’s big bad budget bill worse in many ways, with even more cuts to the health care of millions of Americans with Medicaid coverage. This Senate bill is just a bigger betrayal of working class families that will see increased health costs and reduced health services and benefits, if they don’t lose coverage altogether through more restrictions and red tape.

“The House bill was already the biggest cut to Medicaid in history, and the biggest rollback of coverage ever, and the Senate seeks steeper cuts in some ways — both by expanding punitive paperwork requirements to more people, and by making it harder for states to fund Medicaid coverage for their residents. The many Senators who expressed concerns about the devastating impact of the House bill’s Medicaid cuts on the health systems in their states need to be clear about their alarm and opposition to the direction of the Senate version today.

“If this bill passes, millions of eligible Americans will lose their public or private coverage, whether through Medicaid or the individual insurance marketplaces — and many more will see their health care costs spike as well. The millions more Americans who will be uninsured will live sicker, die younger, and be one emergency away from financial ruin. All Americans will be harmed by these cuts that destabilize the health system on which we all rely and the ripple effect on our economy and public health. These cuts literally mean the difference between 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.

“These real impacts to coverage and care are the reason so many in the health system — patients and providers, health plans and hospitals, doctors, nurses, and health care workers — urge 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, and more. This bill betrays those who voted for affordability and instead are getting pushed and priced out of coverage and care.”