The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Strip Healthcare From Millions—Especially Women and Disabled People

Representative photo: “Having cancer is not enough. Having HIV is not enough. Having Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis or a serious mental health condition is not automatically enough. Every individual must prove not just that they are sick, but that being sick prevents them from working—a distinction that requires ongoing medical documentation, physician involvement and system capacity that does not yet exist.” Photo credit: Ivan S via Pexels. Article by Nicole Jorwic and Tory Cross. Ms. Magazine – July 7, 2026.

HR 1 was already devastating. Now the Trump administration is making it even worse by narrowing exemptions and expanding Medicaid work requirements beyond what Congress envisioned.

Over 70 million people depend on Medicaid. The Trump administration and members of Congress who constantly turn to the program to make cuts, want you to think that’s a problem. It isn’t—it’s the point. Every talking point repeated by politicians, amplified by the media and embedded in the rhetoric of those who just voted to gut $1 trillion from the program, is not a policy argument. It’s a cover story. […]

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