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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Senate Republican health bill’s Medicaid cuts would deepen significantly in the second decade, with the cuts growing from 26 percent in 2026 to 35 percent in 2036, relative to current law. Now, based on CBO estimates and data, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) estimatesthat the Senate bill would cut Medicaid by roughly $2.6 trillion over the second decade (2027-36), on top of Medicaid cuts of $772 billion in the first decade.
That’s because the Senate bill, like the House-passed health bill, would: (1) effectively end the Medicaid expansion, and (2) convert Medicaid to a per capita cap. Rather than continue to pay a set share of state Medicaid costs each year, the per capita cap would limit annual federal funding for each state’s Medicaid program to a set amount per beneficiary, which would rise each year at a rate slower than health care costs generally and the expected growth in Medicaid costs per beneficiary.