Citizens met at Omaha’s Tri-Faith Center Monday to express their concerns about the “big, beautiful bill’s” cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and access to federal loans for medical students.
The townhall was a joint effort by Nebraska Appleseed and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. The reconciliation bill, now passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to cut around $880 billion. This is being done to cover the cost of around $5.4 trillion in tax breaks. Those in favor of the bill say it would root out waste, fraud and abuse, and not affect most of those on Medicaid or Medicare.
Sarah Maresh, the Healthcare Access Program Director at Nebraska Appleseed, said up to 55,000 Nebraskans are estimated to lose health coverage, and the state will lose up to $4 billion from the federal government…