The One Big Beautiful Bill triggers automatic $500B Medicare cuts under PAYGO, impacting seniors' healthcare access starting ...

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Medicare recipients overwhelmingly voted red in 2024. Now, Republicans just cut their Medicare, automatically, as a result of the BBB.

Thanks to the fact that they didn't put a PAYGO waiver in their MAGA Murder Bill, cuts could kick in automatically.

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Lawmakers confronting a rise in political violence are grappling over whether to use more tax dollars for their own ...

Medicare provides health insurance for about 68 million older adults and people with disabilities By Jessica Hall Last Updated: May 21, 2025, 4:22 p.m. ET First Published: May 21, 2025, 2:18 p.m. ET ...

To make matters worse, because the $2.3 trillion deficit increase averages out to $230 billion a year, the cuts to Medicare would still leave $185 billion to be sequestered in fiscal year 2026 ...

Enacting this bill would increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion over a 10-year period, it estimated May 20. Under law, Medicare spending would be reduced by a maximum of 4%, or $490 billion.

The CBO said the GOP’s megabill would lead to $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Two days later, 215 House Republicans voted for it anyway.

This is less than the standard percentage reduction applied to other nonexempt mandatory spending. Under a Statutory PAYGO sequester, these Medicare benefit payment reductions are capped at 4%.

President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce costs could wind up raising prices.