Transient piece on which staff are principally impacted by cuts in Medicaid. And a state assertion from a Senator from Oklahoma who mainly says, “no worries, they could just get employer-based healthcare insurance.” Which if this had been true, why would they take Medicaid? It’s far simpler and fewer of a trouble, if they may get employer-based healthcare insurance coverage. Somebody is overlaying their ass with a lame assertion.
“Workers Most Likely to Lose Medicaid Can’t Rely on Employer-Based Coverage,” CEPR
In a current CNBC interview, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) stated the individuals who lose Medicaid protection beneath the Republican-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will merely transition to employer-sponsored well being care:
“It’s not kicking people off Medicaid. It’s transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided health care. So yes, we’ve got 10 million people that are not going to be on Medicaid, but they then are going to be on employer-provided health care.”
AB: Is Oklahoma Senator James Lankford actually that dumb? Or is he hoping, all of us are that dumb and can imagine his remark? In case you missed it. The OK Senator believes (or is faking it) individuals dropped from Medicaid will simply migrate over to firm healthcare. After all, it might be an choice firm healthcare actually existed. It doesn’t. After all, the CEPR article states related about Lankford’s assertion. Again to CEPR.
What Senator Lankford clearly doesn’t perceive (for those who imagine that is true), these essentially the most impacted by the Medicaid cuts (he helps) are sometimes employees in industries much less more likely to provide employer-based protection. Moreover, additionally they have extra unstable employment and hours. Solely 47 % of employees within the restaurant trade have employer-based protection and 54 % within the development trade.1 The vast majority of these 10 million employees Senator Lankford referenced received’t be capable to ‘transition’ to employer-provided insurance coverage. It merely doesn’t exist.
As it’s presently, the Medicaid cuts proposed within the GOP funds invoice would lower practically 2 million restaurant employees from Medicaid. The cuts are a whopping 21.8 % of the trade as an entire. That is greater than the entire restaurant employees within the state of California (1.4 million in April 2025).2 The development trade would lose the second most Medicaid beneficiaries (1.5 million). The work most impacted by these cuts are from throughout the financial system encompassing development to grocery shops to dwelling well being companies to accommodations.
The chart exhibits the impression of the Republicans invoice which disqualifies a variety of residents from Medicaid.
- Writer’s calculations of March 2024 Annual Social Financial Complement of the Present Inhabitants Survey.
- Present Employment Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
