Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball

This article is part of the series, “Left Hook Economics: The Dollars & Sense Policy Forum.”

In the first of a two-part series, Robert Pollin discusses the huge cuts in federal health care support enacted last July 4 by Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and how it is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system.

“The bill featured cuts in health care spending that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan federal government agency, estimated would amount to between $911 billion and $1 trillion over 10 years.”