Healthcare Finance News March 28, 2025
Nathan Eddy

Roughly 477,000 jobs could be lost in healthcare, including in hospitals, doctors’ offices, clinics, pharmacies and nursing homes.

Deep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could have devastating economic consequences across all 50 states, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

The analysis warns more than 1 million jobs could be lost, state GDPs could shrink by more than $110 billion in 2026 alone, and state and local tax revenues could fall by $8.8 billion.

“These cuts are not just line items – they translate directly into people losing jobs and patients losing access to healthcare and food,” Dr. Leighton Ku, lead author of...

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