Trump's Big Beautiful Bill: Medicaid Cuts to Leave 16 Million Americans Uninsured Over the Next Decade
- May 29
- 2 min read
WATTS, CA - President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is set to cut a
trillion dollars from public health funding in the next decade. Veronica Barriga spoke with caretakers and non-profits about the impact this has on communities- and what you can do to take action.
Mary Lou Fulton, Director of Communications at the California Wellness Foundation says, "We are living through the largest set of health care funding cuts in American history and its showing up in the lives of people we love who can't afford health insurance anymore, who are avoiding care , delaying care, being pushed out of the system because of new rules and regulations and that's not right."
While Medicaid funds shrink Trump is pumping billions into ICE, a war in the middle east and major tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and corporations. People across the state of California are having to choose between insurance premiums and rent.
Caretakers here in Watts say it's unjust to see their communities suffer: "It affects all of us in some type of way, we’re all human at the end of the day one human is not better than the other." shares a caretaker at Altamed PACE.
Dr. Patel who works with patients on Medicaid says when people lose access to routine health care- it actually ends up costing the system more:
"Patients that usually would go for a routine screening, patients that would have heart health, they usually would not do that because of the resources and they end up having a heart attack."
The congressional budget office estimates these public-health cuts will leave 16 million Americans without health insurance.
As nationwide elections roll out, the Someone I love campaign has its own message, they say your vote is power, and your vote can change things.
"We’re trying to make that connection between health and voting for people who represent us, and represent our families and stand up for our health," said Fulton.
Its a message to vote for the issue that affects your family instead of following party lines… and when you look at how the bill was passed it’s clear why.
Vice President J.D Vance broke the Senate tie, passing the bill by just one vote.
The hardworking folks here say in one of the richest countries in the world, healthcare should be a right not a privilege.
"We would do anything for our families, we want them to be well and we want out elected officials to hear that message and support us in that," says Fulton.
In Watts, I’m Veronica Barriga, Independent journalist
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