The impact of President Donald Trump signing the "Big Beautiful Bill" into law is set to have a larger impact than experts had thought here in New Jersey when it comes to the loss of federal healthcare coverage and funding.
According to the independent source for health policy research, KFF, New Jersey will see an increase of 3 percent when it comes to the amount of people who would be without health insurance across the state. This number equates to an additional 320,000 people losing coverage. Of these, 270,000 dropped coverages would be due to the changes in Medicaid, and another 56,000 would be as a result of changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
According to "Justice In Aging," an organization fighting senior poverty through law, 86 percent of adults between the ages of 50-64 who are enrolled in Medicaid expansion across the United States report having a health condition that prevents them from working. It is estimated that almost half of the adults in this same age group who get their coverage through Medicaid have a documented disability.
