Medical Xpress November 3, 2025
As Medicaid funding cuts enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expected to reduce health coverage among adults, researchers and clinicians from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Ariadne Labs argue in a New England Journal of Medicine perspective, that children are at increasing risk of unintended downstream effects.
The bill, which became law on July 4, will cause 10 million people to lose their health insurance by 2034, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates. Children aren’t mentioned explicitly in the bill, but the authors say that many parents who lose coverage likely won’t realize that their kids can retain theirs.
That means the effects on adults “will have big spillover impacts on kids,” said Dr. Beth McGinty, the...
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