Trump Administration kicking more people off Medicaid
Stop the Trump Administration from kicking more people off Medicaid
- Tue, Jul 28 2026 at 5:02 PM
The Trump Administration is making yet another move that would kick people off Medicaid.
Here’s what you need to know and how you can push back against it:
After the massive right-wing tax and budget bill passed last year (which we dubbed the Big Ugly Law), millions of ACA enrollees saw their premiums rise, hundreds of hospitals faced the risk of closing, and Trump’s wealthy buddies celebrated their tax cuts.
But the damage we’ve seen so far is only the beginning.
Right now, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is deciding how to implement the Big Ugly Law’s burdensome new eligibility rules for Medicaid.
And the CMS proposal is *even more restrictive* than what was included in the Big Ugly Law.
CMS’ proposal to implement the Big Ugly Law would:
Make it harder for states to exempt people with serious and complex health conditions from work requirements.
Many of these people are only able to work because of the health coverage they have, and can only work limited schedules. With this change, they would either lose their coverage or have to continually jump through hoops to prove the severity of their conditions and get covered again.
Create additional roadblocks for Medicaid enrollees and their doctors by forcing states to re-verify all conditions that exempt people from work requirements every single year.
Right now, people can self-report their medical conditions. Making patients and doctors navigate extra layers of red tape every year will only force more doctor visits and make it harder for people to get medical care — which would likely make it easier for the government to come up with reasons to deny coverage.
Not everyone has the ability to go to their doctor all the time, and not all doctors are equipped for the major increase in visits these rules will create.
The Urban Institute estimates that the Big Ugly Law will leave approximately 7 million people without Medicaid access. And CMS’ new proposal will likely cause even more people to lose coverage.
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