Illinois stands to lose about $48 billion in federal funding for Medicaid over 10 years, according to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy.

A provision in the budget reconciliation bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill that passed in Congress and was signed by President Trump effectively defunds the clinics. The law doesn't specifically name Planned Parenthood, but it bars Medicaid payments to large health care nonprofits that offer abortions.

How a handful of Republicans learned to stop worrying and love the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ after switching their votes - Republicans who thought the spending cuts were insufficient or that the bill cut too much into Medicaid suddenly seem at ease with their vote,

The reduction in patients who qualify for Medicaid will mean free clinics must fundraise or find other funds to cover costs for care. In addition, some people would lose ACA coverage, causing more people to seek care at free clinics that are already stretched thin.

Democrats are looking to run the Republican Obamacare playbook and use the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a political cudgel heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Early polling on President Donald Trump’s signature legislative victory suggests a small fraction of adults support the bill signed into law on Friday.

Four state legislators who represent parts of Oakland County hosted the meeting at the Troy Community Center on Monday, July 7. They and their audience expressed uncertainty and outrage about the bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate by narrow margins last week. Trump signed it on July 4.

Jamie Vigil fears the impact that Medicaid cuts in Trump's "big, beautiful bill' will have on her ability to obtain skin cancer treatment.

For Catholic Charities of New Hampshire and its six nursing homes, it’s impossible to overlook one provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that seems to have escaped the spotlight: the reduction of Medicaid’s retroactive pay window.