Washington, D.C. – A bombshell new report found that five million Americans and counting have lost their health coverage in the year since Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress like U.S. Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY-17), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY-2), and Nick LaLota (R-NY-1) passed the largest health care cuts in history under the Big Ugly Bill. These Republicans made a choice to gut over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations — and all they have to show for it is a sicker nation and thehighest inflation in three years.
The sobering milestone of five million Americans joining the ranks of the uninsured is just the latest human toll of the Big Ugly Bill. After Trump and Reps. Lawler, Garbarino, and LaLota chose to rip away tax credits from working families, health insurance premiums more than doubled on average. More than 1,000 hospitals, clinics, and essential providers have closed, are at risk of closure, or have cut essential services. And a new poll found more than half of Americans have made sacrifices to deal with high health care costs over the past year, like delaying or avoiding going to the doctor’s office, or taking on medical or credit card debt.
“Reps. Lawler, Garbarino and LaLota helped manufacture the Republican health care affordability crisis that’s left over five million Americans without coverage and counting,” said Brad Woodhouse, President of Save My Care. “We were promised the Trump-Lawler-Garbarino-LaLota Big Ugly Bill would give us the best economy ever by throwing more tax breaks at price-gouging corporations and Trump’s billionaire donors. Instead, it’s done nothing but make historically bad new problems from doubled premiums, mass hospital closures, higher inflation, and millions more denials of care for working people. Trillionaire Elon Musk may be laughing about getting another tax break, but there’s nothing funny about Reps. Lawler, Garbarino and LaLota putting so many New York families in a financial bind under the largest health care cuts in U.S. history. All those now making hard choices like not seeing a doctor when needed or going into deep medical debt have Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress to thank.”
BY THE NUMBERS: NEW YORKERS CHOOSE BETWEEN PAYING MORE OR FOREGOING HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
- An estimated 472,724 New Yorkers have already lost their Medicaid, CHIP, or ACA coverage after Republicans gutted health care.
- 860,000 New Yorkers total are anticipated to lose their health care between 2025 and 2034.
- Premiums for New Yorkers receiving ACA tax credits increased by an average of 149% this year:
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- A 45-year-old in New York making $64,000 saw their average annual premium costs rise by $4,508 to hit $9,948 this year.
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- A 60-year-old couple in New York making $85,000 saw their average annual premium costs rise by $12,671 to hit $19,896 this year.
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- A family of four in New York making $130,000 saw their average annual premium costs rise by $17,132 to hit $28,352 this year.
- Now, thanks to Republicans gutting the premium tax credits and hiking New Yorkers’ premiums, providers in New York will lose an additional $213 million in funding and face a 1.3% spike in uncompensated care demand.
- New York hospitals alone are expected to lose nearly just under $40.9 billion annually. 58 New York health care providers are at-risk, announced cuts, are closing, or have closed, including:
- AT-RISK: St. Mary’s Healthcare
- AT-RISK: Brooklyn Hospital Center
- AT-RISK: Kaleida Health Family Planning Clinic
- AT-RISK: Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
- AT-RISK: Cuba Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: Nassau University Medical Center
- AT-RISK: Geneva General Hospital
- AT-RISK: Nathan Littauer Hospital
- AT-RISK: Gouverneur Hospital
- AT-RISK: Garnet Health Medical Center – Catskill
- AT-RISK: St. James Hospital
- AT-RISK: Lewis County General Hospital
- AT-RISK: The University Of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
- AT-RISK: Margaretville Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: SLHS Massena
- AT-RISK: Medina Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: Schuyler Falls
- AT-RISK: Olean General Hospital
- AT-RISK: Oneida Health
- AT-RISK: Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: The University Of Vermont Health Network-Alice Hyde Medical Center Malone
- AT-RISK: Bon Secours Community Hospital
- AT-RISK: Rome Memorial Hospital
- AT-RISK: Adirondack Medical Center
- AT-RISK: Tri-Town Regional Healthcare
- AT-RISK: Bertrand Chaffee Hospital
- AT-RISK: Silver Lake Specialized Care And Rehab Center
- AT-RISK: Good Samaritan Hospital
- AT-RISK: Wyoming County Community Hospital
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: One Brooklyn Health
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: Erie County Medical Center
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: Columbia Memorial Hospital
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: Northwell Health
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: North Star Health Alliance Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center
- CUTS ANNOUNCED: Rochester Regional Health
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Children’s Mental Health Clinic
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Fresenius Medical Care
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Olean General Hospital – Gundlah Dental Center
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Jennie B. Richmond Nursing Home
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: North Star Pediatrics
- CLOSURE ANNOUNCED: Crystal Run Healthcare – OBGYN
- WARD CLOSED: Nassau University Medical Center — Labor & Delivery
- WARD CLOSED: RRH Newark-Wayne Community Hospital – Labor & Delivery
- WARD CLOSED: Clifton-Fine Hospital – Inpatient Care
- WARD CLOSED: Westfield Memorial Hospital – Inpatient Care
- FACILITY CLOSED: St. Peter’s Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- FACILITY CLOSED: Cayuga Primary Care
- FACILITY CLOSED: Heritage Village Skilled Nursing Facility
- FACILITY CLOSED: North Star Health Alliance Morristown Health Clinic
- FACILITY CLOSED: Presbyterian Home & Services
- FACILITY CLOSED: Buffalo Therapy Services – North Tonawanda
- FACILITY CLOSED: Absolut Care Of Westfield – Nursing Home
- FACILITY CLOSED: Millard Fillmore Surgery Center
- FACILITY CLOSED: Kaleida Health Buffalo Therapy Services
- HOSPITAL CLOSED: Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital
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