If the Supreme Court rules in favor of South Carolina in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, access to reproductive health care for the state’s Medicaid beneficiaries will be restricted, and other states could take similar action.
Explore our data to understand how health care spending and uncompensated care costs will be affected nationwide and at the state level if the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is passed and enhanced premium tax credits were to expire.
About 3.1 million people might lose eligibility because of provisions advanced by the House Ways and Means Committee, and another 1.9 million could lose coverage because of provisions advanced by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Most Medicaid expansion enrollees who didn’t work said health needs, trouble finding jobs, or caregiving responsibilities kept them from working, but many could lose coverage because of difficulty obtaining exemptions from proposed work requirements.
Though 7 in 10 Medicaid expansion enrollees without dependents worked or attended school, many of them would not have consistently met the reconciliation bill’s proposed work requirement because of unstable employment.
Section 112201 would eliminate passive reenrollment and eliminate provisional eligibility. On their own, these provisions would cause many people to lose health insurance, but when implemented with other changes, they’ll have an even larger effect.