Part One: The Unraveling Of American Healthcare, A Timeline of System Collapse Following Medicaid Cuts

From emergency room closures to treatment delays: mapping the cascade of consequences

Author's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) exploring how the legislation will decimate healthcare, eventually putting all Americans at risk by further fragmenting care and depriving access to the poor through over $800 billion in Medicaid cuts that could leave 11 million without insurance. Tomorrow's analysis will explore who benefits, looking historically at how big tax breaks under Trump impacted workers and those who did not get a tax break.