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13 October
5:27 pm

There's another tax of one trillion dollars coming out of our health care system.

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 3 (WABI/WAGM)

5:27 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($1 trillion) claimed to be taken from the health care system — a large, specific number that warrants verification.
What we foundThe $1 trillion figure for health care reductions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is broadly supported by CBO data, but characterizing Medicaid spending cuts as a 'tax coming out of the health care system' is an imprecise framing of what are legislated federal spending reductions.
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