{"id":2458242,"date":"2025-07-11T05:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-of-deaths-by-a-thousand-tax-cuts-not-quite-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:17:27","slug":"millions-of-deaths-by-a-thousand-tax-cuts-not-quite-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-of-deaths-by-a-thousand-tax-cuts-not-quite-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of deaths by a thousand tax cuts? Not quite &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmillions-of-deaths-by-a-thousand-tax-cuts-not-quite-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2458242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article from the Washington Examiner addresses claims made by Democrats that a recent major tax,spending,and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-proves-why-some-foreigners-shouldnt-hold-us-office\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar Proves Why Some Foreigners Shouldn&#039;t Hold US Office\">immigration law signed<\/a> by President Donald Trump will result in millions of deaths,primarily due to Medicaid reforms. The law is said to potentially remove 11.8 million people from Medicaid by 2034. Though, the article explains that this figure is misleading as it includes individuals already ineligible, undocumented immigrants barred from coverage, and able-bodied adults without dependents who fail to meet work or education requirements.<\/p>\n<p>After accounting for those who would not enroll in othre subsidized healthcare options and ineligible groups, the actual number of newly uninsured people could be closer to 3 million able-bodied adults. The article emphasizes that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >healthcare policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-warns-americans-of-higher-energy-costs-if-russia-invades-ukraine\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Warns Americans of Higher Energy Costs if Russia Invades Ukraine\">involves trade-offs<\/a><\/a>, noting studies showing that Medicaid expansion did not improve quality of care and may have worsened appointment wait times. It suggests that reforms represent a reversion to pre-pandemic trajectories rather than drastic cuts, pointing out that overall Medicaid spending will continue to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the piece critiques the rhetoric that the law will cause mass deaths, highlighting complexities and chance costs related to healthcare coverage and arguing that current policies crowd out private insurance without necessarily improving outcomes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Millions of deaths by a thousand tax cuts? Not quite<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2164525\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>If you haven&rsquo;t already been killed by the great net neutrality repeal of 2017 or the Title X gag rule of 2019, you&rsquo;re in luck. For the umpteenth time in the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrats<\/a> are promising that anywhere between tens of thousands and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeanCasten\/status\/1941549528689365444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">millions<\/a>&rdquo; of people will die because of a Republican domestic priority.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&rsquo;s because of the massive tax, spending, and immigration law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Donald-Trump\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22705961921&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD8dCuz69DcHGShBF2Rg2O85a3mNN&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwyb3DBhBlEiwAqZLe5HZvmQW9zAYsYf15FDXsOLAJChp1hpknVkj5U_9Xq680CImKnJn3uBoC3SMQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">President Donald Trump<\/a> signed on July 4, his self-proclaimed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a domestic agenda cornerstone in his second, nonconsecutive term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3463626\/why-used-car-shoppers-ignore-odometers\/\">Why used-car shoppers can ignore odometers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3465035\/andrew-yang-in-touch-elon-musk-america-party\/\">Andrew Yang &#8216;in touch&#8217; with Musk over America Party: &#8216;Happy to help&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3463972\/tesla-shares-decline-elon-musk-new-political-party\/\">Tesla shares on the decline amid Musk&#8217;s launch of a new party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The primary mechanism that Democrats say will murder the masses is the law&rsquo;s reforms to Medicaid, citing a Congressional Budget Office estimate that 11.8 million people who would otherwise be insured will be booted off Medicaid by 2034. This, of course, ignores the fact that every welfare program, even those without automatic spending cuts, such as the 24% across-the-board benefit cut Social Security will face in the next seven to eight years, involves trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, this 11.8 million figure isn&rsquo;t quite what it seems.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2 million of those supposedly booted from Medicaid were already ineligible for it anyway and were discerned as such through heightened verification. Another 1.4 million are illegal immigrants who will be barred from coverage as a part of the law&rsquo;s penalty for states that siphon off their local Medicaid funds to illegal immigrants. Nearly 5 million would be able-bodied adults without any dependents who fail to work, volunteer, or go to some sort of school or job training for 20 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>Subtract half a million from this number for people who fall into two or more of these categories. The CBO says that of these 7.8 million, 1.6 million &ldquo;would have access to, but would not take up, other forms of subsidized coverage, such as premium tax credits for insurance purchased through the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act or employment-based coverage; that number also includes people who would remain eligible for Medicaid but would not enroll.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On top of this nominal 7.8 million, 1.3 million more people would not have health insurance in nine years because the law slightly reduces the amount of money the federal government contributes to plans purchased on Obamacare exchanges, but only for those above the federal poverty line. Another 2.3 million would theoretically lose coverage because the law revokes some premium tax credits for noncitizens, including illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Exclude those 1.6 million who choose not to access other forms of subsidized healthcare, and you have some 9 million uninsured. Subtract noncitizens and those who weren&rsquo;t eligible to start with, and the number falls closer to 3 million able-bodied adults who are either not actually impoverished or not working the bare minimum for an able-bodied, childless adult.<\/p>\n<p>But a better way to think of whether these are actually healthcare cuts in absolute terms is through the lens of opportunity cost.<\/p>\n<p>Consider a 2019 JAMA Cardiology <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30649146\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">study<\/a> comparing the patient outcomes of those hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction in states that didn&rsquo;t expand Medicaid after Obamacare versus those that did. While expansion states saw a reduction in the share of AMI patients who were uninsured, &ldquo;quality of care and outcomes did not improve among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-extends-state-funded-medicare-to-residents-over-age-50-regardless-of-immigration-status\/\" title=\"Calif. extends state-funded Medicare to residents over age 50 regardless of immigration status\">low-income adults<\/a> in expansion compared with non-expansion states.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A 2017 study from the New England Journal of Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28273021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">found<\/a> that expansion states saw appointment wait times worsen by nearly 3%. A 2021 study published by Health Services Research determined that Medicaid expansion exacerbated hospital wait times to the point that the percentage of patients who left ERs without being seen at all rose 15%.<\/p>\n<p>Without technological innovations that improve medical productivity or an increase in the supply of healthcare professionals maturing into the industry, every policy proposal for taxpayer-funded healthcare is a trade-off. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/dem\/newsroom\/press\/news-sanders-releases-new-report-detailing-devastating-impact-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-on-health-care-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">may warn<\/a> that the new law will kill 50,000 people every year. But robbing Medicaid&rsquo;s originally intended beneficiaries &mdash; severely disabled people, pregnant women, and impoverished elderly people &mdash; to pay for illegal immigrants and childless adults choosing not to work will also cost lives in the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3467320\/watch-biden-doctor-refuse-to-answer-questions-house-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WATCH BIDEN&rsquo;S DOCTOR REFUSE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS BEFORE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>None of this is to mention Medicaid&rsquo;s abysmal performance relative to private health insurance, which was largely crowded out by the Obamacare expansion to the point that nearly half the country is reliant on taxpayer-funded care. In this respect, the new law doesn&rsquo;t do enough. If it did manage to claw back Obamacare&rsquo;s encroachment on private insurers, it could meaningfully save lives.<\/p>\n<p>At best, the new law&rsquo;s Medicaid and Obamacare reforms are best understood as a reversion to the trajectory that was in place before the disaster of the pandemic successfully federalized vast swaths of the economy. All in all, even the CBO concedes that the total number of folks on Medicaid in nine years will be just 5 million fewer than the 85 million today, with spending up more than $200 billion per year in 2034. Only in Washington is a $200 billion tax hike considered a pay cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2164525\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2164525\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of deaths from tax cuts? 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