Last week’s article on the healthcare cuts in 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA or HR1) reported that Medicaid would see three quarters of the $1.2 trillion in OBBBA federal healthcare cuts. Let’s dig deeper into how OBBBA impacts the largest single payer in U.S. healthcare. Medicaid and Medicare were created in 1965 with amendments to the 1935 Social Security Act. Originally, Medicaid provided health coverage only for public welfare reci…
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