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Medicaid, Explained: What’s Trump Cutting in 2025? | WSJ

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Medicaid began as a welfare program, but 60 years later it covers one in five Americans and costs more than $800 billion. But Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is changing the health insurance program.

WSJ explores how Medicaid got so big and how the GOP megabill will change it.

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