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11.8 Million
The One Big Beautiful Bill strips $665B from state Medicaid budgets over a decade; 11.8 million Americans are projected to lose coverage as Arizona, Iowa, California, and New York face the largest absolute cuts.
Sources (3)
| Source | Score |
|---|---|
| State Medicaid budgets will decline by $665 billion under new federal law Stateline / States Newsroom | 88% |
| Millions Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Due to New Rules Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | 92% |
| States are Beginning to Grapple with Federal Medicaid Cuts Impact on Rural Health Care Georgetown Center for Children and Families | 91% |
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[map.view lat=39 lon=-98 zoom=3.5] [entity.propose id="country:united_states" type="country" name="United States" lon=-95.7129 lat=37.0902] [entity.propose id="region:us_south" type="region" name="US South" lon=-87.0 lat=33.0] [entity.propose id="state:arizona" type="region" name="Arizona" lon=-111.0937 lat=34.0489] [entity.propose id="state:iowa" type="region" name="Iowa" lon=-93.0977 lat=41.8780] [entity.propose id="state:california" type="region" name="California" lon=-119.4179 lat=36.7783] [map.highlight ids="country:united_states" color="#4299E1" opacity=0.4] The One Big Beautiful Bill embedded the largest Medicaid restructuring since the program was created in 1965. The CBO projects eleven-point-eight million Americans will lose health coverage. [chat.say source="rwjf_millions_lose_medicaid_2026"] [map.highlight ids="state:arizona,state:iowa" color="#E53E3E" opacity=0.7] Arizona, Iowa, and Nevada face the sharpest cuts — more than fifteen percent of their Medicaid budgets — as the federal matching rate for expansion populations collapsed on January 1, 2026. Rural clinics in Iowa are closing. State legislatures face impossible math. [scene.title kind=chapter eyebrow="Clio Short" title="11.8 Million" subtitle="The Medicaid Cliff"] [scene.title kind=clear] [chat.say source="stateline_medicaid_665b_2026"] [map.highlight ids="state:california" color="#F6AD55" opacity=0.6] California alone loses one hundred twelve billion dollars in federal Medicaid support over the next decade. New York loses sixty-three billion. The total state shortfall across all fifty states: six hundred sixty-five billion dollars — a structural fiscal crisis baked into law. [chat.say source="georgetown_rural_health_medicaid_2026"] [map.highlight ids="region:us_south" color="#FC8181" opacity=0.5] By October 2026, Medicaid eligibility narrows for non-citizens. By December, states must redetermine eligibility every six months instead of annually — a bureaucratic churn designed to shed enrollment even among people who qualify. The rural health care system, already stretched thin, absorbs the impact first. [scene.title kind=outro title="11.8 Million" subtitle="Follow Clio for more."]