INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Medical organizations are blasting the Senate's budget bill in the wake of its narrow passage Tuesday, warning of the dystopian health care
system that will arise from the $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs if it is passed into law
The bill has moved back to the House for a vote on the Senate's changes.Over the weekend, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office
estimated that 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance over the next decade due to the cuts to Medicaid and other programs
Those cuts, which are deeper than the House's version of the bill, were maintained in the Senate's final version of the bill after
amendments, with few concessions.Organizations representing physicians, pediatricians, medical schools, and hospitals were quick to
highlight the damage the proposal could cause.The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Susan Kressly, released a stark statement
saying the legislation "will harm the health of children, families, and communities." The cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) will mean that "many children will not have healthy food to eat
health care." And the cuts are so deep that they will also have "devastating consequences that reach far beyond even those who rely on the
