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Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30K additional deaths: Analysis

By The Hill  
   April 23, 2025

An attempt by Republican lawmakers to roll back the federal government's share of Medicaid expansion could result in tens of thousands of additional deaths. The analysis by the left-leaning Centers for American Progress found that about 34,200 more people would die annually if the federal government reduced its current 90% match for the expansion costs and states responded by dropping their Medicaid expansions.

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