Image: US President Donald Trump bangs a gavel after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP)

Stephen Prager of Common Dreams reports: “Not even a year after President Donald Trump signed the largest healthcare cuts in US history into law, around five million Americans have lost insurance coverage, according to a report out Monday from Protect Our Care, which predicted that the crisis was “only going to get worse.”

The massive budget and tax legislation passed by Republicans last July, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, slashed nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the next decade while introducing tax breaks that are expected to hand an additional $1 trillion to the richest 1% of Americans…”

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