“ the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), often referred to as the "BBB," a legislative bill passed in 2025. This bill did not abolish Medicaid but introduced significant changes to the program. According to multiple sources, including the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the OBBBA imposes substantial cuts to Medicaid funding, estimated at $863 billion to $1.2 trillion over a decade, primarily through measures like work requirements, increased eligibility redeterminations, and restrictions on state funding mechanisms. These changes are projected to result in 7.8 to 20 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034, depending on the estimate, due to bureaucratic hurdles and reduced federal support. The bill also targets specific groups, such as undocumented immigrants, by removing their access to certain Medicaid-funded services, and it limits retroactive eligibility and imposes a fixed home equity cap for long-term care coverage”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749946&forum_id=2...#49098553)

access to healthcare will likely be the issue that topples the beleaguered liberal centrist coalition in the US. i've studied and ruminated on it for hours and hours and there are, or appear to be, no free market solutions for fixing healthcare in this country. i have no idea what fedgov is going to do to tackle insurance or drug prices. the FDA is the number one most pressing example of "regulatory capture" from malign actors (in this instance) within the healthcare industry in this country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749946&forum_id=2...#49099631)