Another in an ongoing series
Dear Senator;
I am a resident of Pennsylvania and a constituent of yours and I'd like you to answer a question or two.
This is about President Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill now making its way through Congress.
If signed into law, how many of your constituents will loose their healthcare coverage?
Under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — budget legislation that would achieve some of President Donald Trump's priorities, such as extending tax cuts mainly benefiting the wealthy — some 10.9 million Americans would lose health insurance by 2034, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office based on a House version of the budget bill.
Senator, how many of those estimated 10.9 million are your Pennsylvania constituents?
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates about 400,000 Pennsylvanians have opted to have health insurance from the Affordable Care Act. How many of those will lose their insurance, Senator?
They also estimate about 2.4 million are on Medicare. How many of those will lose coverage, Senator?
Additionally, in a letter to Senators Wyden and Sanders members of the Yale School of Public Health and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, state that as many as 51,000 deaths would result due to the reductions in Medicare and the Affordable Care Act brought about by Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. How many of those will be your constituents, Senator?
Roll Call reported:
The House-passed reconciliation bill would most benefit high earners and reduce financial resources available to the lowest-income households, the Congressional Budget Office said in a distributional analysis of the measure Thursday.
The nonpartisan agency said it estimates that over the fiscal 2026 through 2034 period, after-tax income and federal benefits “would decrease for households toward the bottom of the income distribution, whereas resources would increase for households in the middle and top of the income distribution.”
In other words:
Higher-income households would benefit the most by receiving a larger tax cut because they earn more money. The agency said the lowest 10 percent of earners would see a $1,600 or 3.9 percent reduction in their available income and benefits per year, adjusted for inflation, mainly due to cuts in Medicaid and SNAP.
How many of your constituents will have to lose their medical benefits (or their lives) just to order to pay for this upward distribution of wealth, Senator?
I'll await your answer, Senator.
As always, I'll post here whatever response I get.
